Re: 2.6.20-mm2

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, 20 February 2007 07:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:20:21 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 20:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:44:54 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 06:51, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Temporarily at
> > > > > 
> > > > >   http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm2/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Will appear later at
> > > > > 
> > > > >  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/
> > > > 
> > > > Two problems:
> > > > 
> > > > 1) A showstopper with the root partition on RAID1:
> > > > 
> > > > md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
> > > > [--snip--]
> > > > md: multipath personality registered for level -4
> > > > register_blkdev: failed to get major for mdp
> > > > [--snip--]
> > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "md1" or unknown-block(0,0)
> > > 
> > > Someone else reported that against mainline.  Can you please debug it a bit?
> > 
> > For now I can only say 2.6.20 + origin.patch breaks.
> > 
> > However, it's a SUSE 10.1 system with gcc 4.1.0 and this may be the reason.
> > I'll check that tomorrow.
> 
> Yes, Rolf says this goes away when you stop using gcc-4.1.0.
> 
> I'm hoping that churning the code around like below makes things work
> right.

Yes, that helps.

Thanks,
Rafael