Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422760AbWLPXAH (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:00:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422757AbWLPXAH (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:00:07 -0500 Received: from mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.8]:3544 "EHLO mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422758AbWLPXAF (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:00:05 -0500 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:00:17 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Garzik References: <200612150141.09020.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612162300.17151.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 36 On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > > again. > > > > So I think this is the source, but I can't explain why it "goes away" > > before git1 and "comes back" before 2.6.20-rc1. > > Can you see if the kernel state at commit 77d172ce ("[PATCH] fix SG_IO bio > leak") is good? Ie just do something like > > git checkout -b test-branch 77d172ce > > and compile and test that? As predicted, it still doesn't work. [alistair] 22:59 [~/linux-git] git-status # On branch refs/heads/test-branch nothing to commit [root] 22:59 [~] hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/