From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:33:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20071207093304.GC21135@elte.hu> References: <20071204121618.GA26132@elte.hu> <20071207001612.39E36DBA2@gherkin.frus.com> <20071206163305.c3587675.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:35816 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751014AbXLGJdg (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 04:33:36 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071206163305.c3587675.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Bob Tracy , mcree@orcon.net.nz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, greg@kroah.com * Andrew Morton wrote: > > # bad: [6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba] Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 > > git-bisect bad 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba > > # good: [2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3] CRISv10 fasttimer: Scrap INLINE and name timeval_cmp better > > git-bisect good 2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3 > I'm struggling to see how any of those could have broken block device > mounting on alpha. Are you sure you bisected right? the bisection log looks healthy so far - with nicely alternating good/bad bisection points. Barring the possibility that the bug is non-deterministic, i'd guess the bisection points are OK, at least judging from their statistical properties. but ... i went over the diffs too, and i fail to see how they could affect the bootup path of an Alpha box, which i suspect has no networking dependency up to the failure point. Ingo