Re: 2.6.16-rc5: known regressions

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:17:25PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:40:53 +0100 Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 27 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:54:17AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > >Subject    : 2.6.16-rc[34]: resume-from-RAM unreliable (SATA)
> > > > >References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/20/159
> > > > >Submitter  : Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
> > > > >Handled-By : Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> > > > >Status     : one of Randy's patches seems to fix it
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This is not a regression, libata suspend/resume has always been crappy. 
> > > >  It's under active development (by Randy, among others) to fix this.
> > > 
> > > It might have always been crappy, but it is a regression since
> > > according to the submitter it is working with 2.6.15.
> > 
> > It might have worked under lucky circumstances with an idle disk and a
> > goat sacrifice, so I agree with Jeff that this is definitely not a
> > regression. To my knowledge, Mark always used my libata suspend patch on
> > earlier kernels so it's not even an apples-apples comparison.
> > 
> > So please scratch that entry.
> 
> I'll third that request/comment.

OK, done.

> ~Randy

cu
Adrian

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