Re: size of git repository (was Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

2007-11-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 2007-11-13 12:50:08, Mark Lord wrote: > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > >for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that > > >years ago bisection of a bug was a very laborous task > >

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:56 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 > > > > > In fact this thread is the very example: David points ou

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 > > > In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev > > some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved.

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:16:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > countered by the underlined sentences above, just in case you missed > > it. > > I didn't miss your claim. ok, then you conceded it by not replying to it? good ;-) Ingo

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so please stop this "too busy and too noisy" nonsense already. It > > was nonsense 10 years ago and it's nonsense today. In 10 years the > > kernel grew from a 1 million lines codebase to an 8 million lines > > codebase, so what? Deal with it and b

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds > &

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's >> not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you >> do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the >> linux-2.6 directory. > .. > > Ah, I wo

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds > > for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the > > separate netdev list is a bad idea - networking regressions should > > be discussed and fixed on lkml, like mo

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For debugging, maybe it's time someone does an amazon ec2+s3 service > to automate the bisecting and create .deb/.rpm from git, I don't know > how much it would cost though. a few months ago i estimated the costs of this and it's just a few tera

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > .. >> This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_, >> it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for years, >> in favor of the all-too-easy "ope

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you believe that our response to bug reports is adequate? > > > > Do you feel that making us feel and look like shit helps? > > That doesn't answer my question. > > See, first we need to work out whether we have a problem. If we do > this,

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some day we may have modesetting support in the kernel for some > > graphics hw, right now it's pretty damn spotty. > > Yep, that's the way to go. hey, i wildly supported this approach ever since 1996, when GGI came up :-/ Ingo

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even if one doesn't use the fb console at all, radeonfb apparently > > is still required on some ThinkPad models to work around BIOS bugs: > > > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep#Radeon_GPU_not_powered_off >

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > disabling the following radeonfb options in the .config made resume > > work again: > > In general, don't even *try* to use radeonfb for suspend/resume. > > I don't think it has ever worked, except on some very rare laptops > (largely PPC Macs)

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's another suspend/resume artifact: one of my boxes wouldnt > > resume, it hangs at: > > > > [1.456633] pci :00:18.2: resuming > > [1.456641] pci :00:18.3: resuming > >

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another suspend/resume artifact: one of my boxes wouldnt > resume, it hangs at: > > [1.456633] pci :00:18.2: resuming > [1.456641] pci :00:18.3: resuming > [1.456648] 8139too :05:07.0: resum

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas found a new twist to this today: applying the patch below > (which turns on ATA_DEBUG) made the SATA problem go away on his > laptop. Michael, could you try this patch, does it change the behavior > of your laptop in any wa

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael - does your 'date' output advance after resume? If not then > > i'd say it's a NO_HZ related problem. If yes then i'd guess it's the > > SATA problem. > > I'll test, but I have NO_HZ off for now. there can still be effects of it (the

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. First disk access after resume takes a couple of minutes > >(seemed instant with 2.6.20) during this time no new messages > >show on console > > Yeah, there is some problem with SATA resume. It would be beautiful if > the people who ac

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael - does your 'date' output advance after resume? If not then > i'd say it's a NO_HZ related problem. [...] in that case please do this on such a 'frozen date' system: echo q > /proc/sysrq

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. When I switch to X (CTRL-ALT-F7), X hangs after drawing a couple of > > windows > >after waiting for some 10 min, I rebooted. no new messages showed > >up in /var/log/messages > > I think this is likely just more of the disk being bugg