Hi everybody,
"The bug was introduced somewhere at the transition of 2.6.20 towards 
2.6.20-git14."
I fortunately had some git9 patch at home and found out that it is sane.
In so far the floppy mount bug was introduced somewhen between 2.6.20-git10 and 
2.6.20-git14.
"I'm afraid that the most proactical (it spells "practical", Mr. Morton) way of 
fixing this is to ask you to run a git-bisect to find the changeset which 
introduced the regression."
Until you aren't even ready to explain me the exact technique of bisecting I 
won't do it and I can't do it. I do not like the gesture behind your words.
I am still expecting you to get my linuxtv patches applied, which is definitely 
being compromised by you, Mr. Morton. Forget about Chehab - he will never step 
in the shoes of the standards that have been set by Gerd Knorr and the old 
german convergence crew.
Apart from that it is definitely your job to build up mailing chains to get 
kernel errors fixed, not mine. For my feedbacks concerning the buggy mm-stuff 
you didn't even send a reply. A "thank you" or whatever. Real "honest" gesture, 
isn't it?
But of course it seems to be easier to push buggy code into mainline vanilla, 
or did I get something wrong? If I did get something wrong then please correct 
me.
Fact is: The buggy code residing somewhere in git10, git11, git12, git13 or 
git14 resides in 2.6.20-mm2 at the same time. And if git is finished this buggy 
code is being pushed into mainline!
If I would say yes now and do all the bisecting dirty work this would be like a 
license to push bad untested code into vanilla mainline!
And this is the policy that needs urgently to be stopped, without any 
discussion!
And exactly this does not happen for the first time: The regression confusing 
nerolinux (happened at the transition from 2.6.19 to 2.6.20-rc1 in December 
2006) followed exactly the same dramaturgic rules. And this is the 
irresponsible, regressive, wrong and counterproductive policy that I am talking 
about! And exactly in that context the following statement by Mister Andrew 
Morton is completely displaced:
"I think we'll find that it works OK for hundreds of other people, so it got 
broken in some manner which is specific to a very small number of machines, of 
which yours is one." From where do you know, and what is going on in your brain 
please?
Excuse me please, but the gesture behind sounds like: "99 % of all bttv cards 
need dvb-pll.c." (Mauro Carvalho Chehab)
A real honest and accurate man would reply: "Sorry and thank you for your 
contributions, but I do not have any idea either! And as soon as I see my 
limits I will try my best to get some help from people who really have an idea."

Best Regards

Uwe
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