From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: fatal oops in current CVS confirmed Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:56:12 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <200303071353.h27DrnJ01476@linuxaudiosystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Paul Davis , "alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:06:59 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Paul Davis wrote: > > > in the trident case > > * smp-related code > > Fixed. The problem was in Takashi's Scatter-Gather DMA update. The > driver package 0.9.0rc8d should fix this problem. oops, sorry. the bug had lived more than two months, so i wonder why this wasn't reported at all... > > in the wavefront case > > * code within the module > > I cannot fix above problem, until I know the place of this bug. The best > way is to determine this problem is commenting/uncommenting of the > initialization code. ... or a traditional way; put many printk()'s in the init path and check at which point stalls. > > i would strongly advise against releasing 0.9.0 final when its so > > trivial to crash a system with it. and incidentally, its precisely > > this kind of waste of 3 days that explains why i haven't updated from > > ALSA CVS in a long time :) > > Because it appears that all your reported problems are "local" (driver > specific), I don't think that it's a showstoper for the final release. yes, and please remember that 0.9.0-final is not the final for ALSA. we'll be able to release the fixed version ASAP. i guess you won't expect that, for example, the 2.6.0 kernel is so perfect that all components work without any bugs :) ciao, Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf