Re: kernel-2.4.0-test11 crashed again; this time i send you the Oops-message

2000-11-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Keith Owens writes: > "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The infamous LINK_FIRST infrastructure was sort of half-way done. >> >> It would be best to cause drivers with an unspecified link order >> to move around a bit, so that errors may be discovered more quickly. > > The "other"

Re: kernel-2.4.0-test11 crashed again; this time i send you the Oops-message

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Albert D. Cahalan] > The infamous LINK_FIRST infrastructure was sort of half-way done. I disagree: it could handle all cases I could see that we might reasonably care about. I challenge anyone to come up with a non-pathological case that could not be taken care of with a single LINK_FIRST and/

Re: kernel-2.4.0-test11 crashed again; this time i send you the Oops-message

2000-11-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:58:28 -0500 (EST), "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The infamous LINK_FIRST infrastructure was sort of half-way done. > >It would be best to cause drivers with an unspecified link order >to move around a bit, so that errors may be discovered more quickly. Th

Re: kernel-2.4.0-test11 crashed again; this time i send you the Oops-message

2000-11-22 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Peter Samuelson writes: > [Neil Brown] >> In drivers/md/Makefile, swap the order of "raid5.o xor.o" to be >> "xor.o raid5.o", recompile, install, reboot. > > Don't forget the part about adding a comment saying that xor.c does in > fact need to come before raid5.c. This is the part that most like

Re: kernel-2.4.0-test11 crashed again; this time i send you the Oops-message

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Neil Brown] > In drivers/md/Makefile, swap the order of "raid5.o xor.o" to be > "xor.o raid5.o", recompile, install, reboot. Don't forget the part about adding a comment saying that xor.c does in fact need to come before raid5.c. This is the part that most likely will not happen, so that two m