From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc6 ramdisk problem
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:40:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170290408.29240.252.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C130DC.90905@shaw.ca>
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:14 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > So either #1 or #2 should have failed in the first place. Failing in #3
> > is definitely a BUG in #1 or #2.
> >
> > How does your advise help to fix that BUG ? Ignoring it by using
> > something else ?
>
> Yes, there is likely a bug here of some sort. However, that doesn't
> change the fact that ramdisks are sub-optimal for most uses.
You still did not answer my question:
How does this deep insight help us to track down that BUG ?
Michal is actively testing the kernel and provides extremly useful
information about problems. He pointed out a bug and we want to fix it.
Adding special instructions, which are appropriate for a LUG
mailinglist, does us not get any further.
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-01 0:39 UTC|newest]
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2007-01-31 23:54 ` 2.6.20-rc6 ramdisk problem Robert Hancock
2007-02-01 0:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-01 0:14 ` Robert Hancock
2007-02-01 0:40 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-01-31 13:55 Michal Piotrowski
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