Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Sonny Rao wrote: > > Can this method detect breakages that are spread across more than one > patch? I suppose it'll just trigger on the last patch commited in the > set in this case? It will trigger on just the commit that introduces the user-visible breakage, so yes,

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Sonny Rao wrote: Can this method detect breakages that are spread across more than one patch? I suppose it'll just trigger on the last patch commited in the set in this case? It will trigger on just the commit that introduces the user-visible breakage, so yes, it's

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:45:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > > > The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. > > Just for reference, that's git ID's > > >

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. Just for reference, that's git ID's 1d345dac1f30af1cd9f3a1faa12f9f18f17f236e..2a5a68b840cbab31baab2d9b2e1e6de3b289ae1e and that's 225 commits and the diff is 55,781 lines long. It would

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. Just for reference, that's git ID's 1d345dac1f30af1cd9f3a1faa12f9f18f17f236e..2a5a68b840cbab31baab2d9b2e1e6de3b289ae1e and that's 225 commits and the diff is 55,781 lines long. It would be

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:45:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. Just for reference, that's git ID's

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-30 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >> >It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, >> > so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. >> >> 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. > >Gaah. I don't see

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-30 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. Gaah. I don't see anything really

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-23 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >> >It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, >> > so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. >> >> 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. > >Gaah. I don't see

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-23 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. Gaah. I don't see anything really

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
>Helge Hafting wrote: >>Dave Airlie wrote: >>> I switched back to 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 at this point for another reason, >>> my X display aquired a nasty tendency to go blank for no reason >>> during work, >>> something I could fix by changing resolution baqck and forth. X >>> also

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 10:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > > >It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, > > >so > > > I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. > > > > 2.6.12 works fine,

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > >It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, so > > I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. > > 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. Gaah. I don't see anything really obvious in

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Eike, maybe you could change the ">=" to just ">" instead? Ahh, I think you'd need to change the "i < PCI_ROM_RESOURCE" a few lines above that to use "<=" too. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Eike, maybe you could change the = to just instead? Ahh, I think you'd need to change the i PCI_ROM_RESOURCE a few lines above that to use = too. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. Gaah. I don't see anything really obvious in that

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 10:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net access, so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. 2.6.12 works fine, everything since

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-22 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Helge Hafting wrote: Dave Airlie wrote: I switched back to 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 at this point for another reason, my X display aquired a nasty tendency to go blank for no reason during work, something I could fix by changing resolution baqck and forth. X also tended to get

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-17 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Helge Hafting wrote: >Dave Airlie wrote: >> I switched back to 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 at this point for another reason, >> my X display aquired a nasty tendency to go blank for no reason >> during work, >> something I could fix by changing resolution baqck and forth. X >> also tended

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-17 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Helge Hafting wrote: Dave Airlie wrote: I switched back to 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 at this point for another reason, my X display aquired a nasty tendency to go blank for no reason during work, something I could fix by changing resolution baqck and forth. X also tended to get

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Dave Airlie wrote: I switched back to 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 at this point for another reason, my X display aquired a nasty tendency to go blank for no reason during work, something I could fix by changing resolution baqck and forth. X also tended to get stuck for a minute now

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Dave Airlie wrote: I switched back to 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 at this point for another reason, my X display aquired a nasty tendency to go blank for no reason during work, something I could fix by changing resolution baqck and forth. X also tended to get stuck for a minute now

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Danny ter Haar wrote: >>What i dont "get" is that ethernet also goes down when the scsi >>controller goes bezerk. >>I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem since 2.6.12-mm1 survives >>and brings this usenet host in the worldwide top 1000.

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Danny ter Haar wrote: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Danny ter Haar wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny ter Haar wrote: What i dont get is that ethernet also goes down when the scsi controller goes bezerk. I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem since 2.6.12-mm1 survives and brings this usenet host in the worldwide top 1000. Interesting. I have no

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 >> have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others keep crashing: >The latest -git

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:05:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > The two kernels have some config differences. The 2.6.13-rc5 kernel > > has ACPI+CPUFREQ configured, that the 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 doesn't have. > > That's a pretty big difference ;) >

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:05:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The two kernels have some config differences. The 2.6.13-rc5 kernel has ACPI+CPUFREQ configured, that the 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 doesn't have. That's a pretty big difference ;) Sure.

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others keep crashing: The latest -git kernel (or

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 > have no problems with the same disk. > > Machine: opteron running a x86-64 kernel, with built-in SATA as well as > a symbios scsi controller. Two videocards running independent

rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-05 Thread Helge Hafting
2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Machine: opteron running a x86-64 kernel, with built-in SATA as well as a symbios scsi controller. Two videocards running independent xservers. The sdb disk is on the symbios controller.

rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-05 Thread Helge Hafting
2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Machine: opteron running a x86-64 kernel, with built-in SATA as well as a symbios scsi controller. Two videocards running independent xservers. The sdb disk is on the symbios controller.

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Machine: opteron running a x86-64 kernel, with built-in SATA as well as a symbios scsi controller. Two videocards running independent