Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:23:34PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I don't see any reason that we couldn't have a tool accessible to Ubuntu > users that does a real "git bisect". Git is really good at being scripted > by fancy GUIs. It should be easy enough to have a drop down with all of > the

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:33:44AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > I'm very encouraged to read of your expanded testing efforts. As a > bcm43xx developer, Ubuntu has been our problem distro, mostly > because your standard kernels have debugging turned off for bcm43xx. > When a Ubuntu user reports a pr

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:52:32PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > Btw, I used to test every -mm kernel. But since I've switched distros > (gentoo->ubuntu) > and I have less time, I feel it's harder to test -rc or -mm kernels (I > know this isn't a lkml problem > but more a distro problem, but I w

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > By forcing AHCI, your PATA devices will be inaccessible, in a common > configuration. It also means shuffling users from one driver to another, > which induces breakage. > > I was speaking wishfully. Real life intrudes, alas. Not e

Re: Suspend to ram regression (2.6.24-rc1-git)

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:37:08PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > Does this patch fix your problem? It seems to get hung up while disabling > DIPM, and after thinking about this a bit, I don't think we really need > to do this anyway. Yep, this fixes suspend/resume on my X61 thinkpad.

Re: end to end error recovery musings

2007-02-26 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:33:37PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Do we want a path in the other direction to handle write errors? The > file system could say "Don't worry to much if this block cannot be > written, just return an error and I will write it somewhere else"? > This might allow md not to

Re: end to end error recovery musings

2007-02-23 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:37:23PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Probably the only sane thing to do is to remember the bad sectors and > > avoid attempting reading them; that would mean marking "automatic" > > versus "explicitly requested" requests to determine whether or not to > > filter th