From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: linux-ide: hda: possibly failed opcode: 0x25 on Alpha with 2.6.34-rc3 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:34:57 +0200 Message-ID: <201004131734.57365.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20100406232659.GA4788@physik.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:36009 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752165Ab0DMPgo (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:36:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100406232659.GA4788@physik.fu-berlin.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Glaubitz Cc: "David S. Miller" , Sergei Shtylyov , Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 07 April 2010 01:26:59 am Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Dear IDE maintainers, I'm flattered but nowadays I'm just a maintainer of a modest out-of-tree project or two.. ;-) > I recently installed Debian unstable on an old digital personal > workstation 433au alpha (Miata) [1] with the default kernel 2.6.32 > from Debian unstable. There were no obvious problems except for the > tulip network driver which produced a lot of noise [2]. Joe Perches was > so kind to provide a patch to reduce the noise. I applied the patch > against 2.6.34-rc3 and rebuilt the kernel with the 2.6.32 Debian > config using "make oldconfig". The kernel build took around 18 hours ;). > > Anyway, after rebooting the machine into the new kernel (2.6.34-rc3), the > IDE driver obviously triggered a lot of errors [3] resulting in the kernel > not being able to mount the root partition. I think that the highest chance of bringing the right people's attention to this kernel regression would be achieved by filling the official bug-report at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/. Thanks. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz