On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:55:36AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:24:46PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 01:31 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > You missed the part where we have to avoid doing this for host bridges ... > > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118809338631160&w=2 > > > > > > (I believe it's now queued in Greg's tree, and possibly Andrew's tree > > > too) > > Hmm, I don't know there is already a fix for this, so waste a whole > > morning :(. yes, your patch looks better. > > Yes, this bug is causing a lot of people to waste time. I fielded an > internal request for this patch this afternoon. I appreciate we're > post-rc6 at this point, but it does rather suck to be releasing a kernel > which freezes on boot on this class of machines.
But it's not like the kernel every worked on this class of machines, right? This is not something that was a regression from what I can see. > Unfortunately if this patch does cause any machine to break, these will > be machines that worked fine up until this point, so that would be a > regression, which is worse. Life sucks. If, after a while, you think the change should go into the -stable tree, I have no objection. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/