From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions with patches Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:35:58 -0500 Message-ID: <45592B8E.1020600@pobox.com> References: <20061113221446.GJ22565@stusta.de> <4558F833.4090204@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:31910 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933336AbWKNCgM (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:36:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Brian King , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Paul Mackerras , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Brian King wrote: > >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> Subject : libata must be initialized earlier >>> References : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-November/027945.html >>> Submitter : Paul Mackerras >>> Handled-By : Brian King >>> Patch : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=116169938407596&w=2 >>> Status : patch available >> I just resubmitted this patch a few minutes ago. > > I definitely want an ACK on this from Jeff - I'll take a few broken ppc64 > machines any day over the worry that there might be problems elsewhere. > > Jeff? Ack, Nack, or "I'll push it to you through my git tree", please.. Reluctant ACK. But this whole subsys_init() mess is highly fragile, and this is going to change again once a new dependency arises :/ Jeff