Re: fatal oops in current CVS confirmed

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

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


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