Re: [1/4] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions (v2)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:23:10PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:32:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > Subject    : kernels fail to boot with drives on ATIIXP controller
> >              (ACPI/IRQ related)
> > References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229621
> >              http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/257
> > Submitter  : Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>
> > Status     : unknown
> 
> I have now even better one with pata_via.  A kernel, which for
> all practical purposes is 2.6.21-rc5, not only refuses to boot
> (and I cannot find some option combination which would allow me to
> do so anyway) but simply refuses to read _any_ data from a media.
> This included a partitioning information.
> 
> Earlier kernel on the same hardware boots without raising any fuss.
> 
> Details are collected as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234650

If I understand this correctly, a plain 2.6.20 kernel is already broken?

>    Michal

cu
Adrian

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