From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:39:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <475C0C47.6090706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209152509.5c6e33a2@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> Newly broken ones will be regressions. How many do we fix by the
>> change? On SATA, setting the correct transfer chunk size doesn't seem
>> to fix many.
>
> Regressions are not some kind of grand evil. Better to regress the odd
> device than continue to break entire controllers.
We need to put more weight on regressions as it at least makes releases
predictable to users. Anyways, I wasn't saying it was some absolute
maxim. I was literally asking how many so that we can evaluate the
trade off.
>>> Tejun - instead of backing out important updates for 2.6.24 we should
>>> just blacklist that specific drive for now and sort it nicely in 2.6.25,
>>> not revert stuff and break everyone elses ATAPI devices.
>> We'll need to blacklist setting transfer chunk size, eek, and let's
>> leave that as the last resort and hope that we find the solution soon.
>> Blacklist takes time to develop and temporary blacklist for just one
>> release doesn't sound like a good idea.
>
> It seems to be sensible to me *if* it is just this one device we are
> somehow confusing and that one device is holding up fixing everything
> else.
Yeah, if it's this one device, I fully agree. Let's see how debugging
turns out.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-09 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-08 2:40 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 6:53 ` Fabio Comolli
2007-12-08 8:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 22:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 9:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 22:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 9:30 ` tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23] Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 10:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 16:37 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-08 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 20:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 8:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-09 8:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 9:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-09 11:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 12:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 22:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-09 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-11 6:27 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-11 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11 19:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-14 4:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-14 7:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-14 12:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 19:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-09 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 14:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 18:33 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-08 19:00 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 8:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-13 22:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-08 9:36 ` 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 10:12 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-08 10:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 10:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-08 10:55 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-09 15:46 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 19:59 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-09 6:52 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 14:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-09 15:11 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-08 9:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 18:57 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-08 19:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-08 19:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 22:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-09 2:15 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-13 10:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2007-12-20 15:42 ` Takashi Iwai
2007-12-08 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 15:49 ` Alan Stern
2007-12-08 9:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-09 7:00 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 15:09 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 15:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 15:39 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-12-09 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-09 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-09 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 22:51 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-10 1:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10 3:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-10 3:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-10 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 8:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-10 8:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 10:44 ` Richard Purdie
2007-12-08 22:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-09 11:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-09 12:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 14:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-10 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 20:57 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-12-10 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-10 22:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 23:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 23:34 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-10 23:53 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-12-11 8:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 23:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-11 0:01 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-12-11 1:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-11 8:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11 21:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-19 0:58 ` Stefano Brivio
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2007-12-08 18:24 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-09 5:59 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 21:36 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 0:04 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 0:49 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 0:49 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 1:28 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-10 2:25 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-10 3:20 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-10 2:20 ` Tejun Heo
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