Kernel 2.6.23-rc2 git4 & git5

Kernel 2.6.23-rc2 git4 & git5

[Chris Holvenstot]

This morning I reported an issue which cause a failure of the
2.6.23-rc2-git4 kernel to boot on my system.  The contents of my post
may be viewed here:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0708.1/1959.html

After 3 separate builds from "virgin sources" I still had the boot
failure with the git4 level kernel.

This afternoon I picked up the git5 patch and it comes up and appears to
run without problem.

Same base system.  Same hardware.  Same build process.

So even though I have only been building and running "pre-release"
kernels for a short time I feel confident in saying that something was
not kosher with the git4 patch - at least when it came to my system.

(system configuration data is in the original post)

I would not normally burn the valuable time of others with a rhetorical
post but I looked at the changes out into the git5 patch and did not
spot anything that looked like it would have resolved the issue I was
having and I hate not being  able to correlate a cause and effect here.

Any clues, or did I just get lucky with this one?

Re: Kernel 2.6.23-rc2 git4 & git5

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi Chris,

On 12/08/07, Chris Holvenstot <cholvenstot@comcast.net> wrote:
> This morning I reported an issue which cause a failure of the
> 2.6.23-rc2-git4 kernel to boot on my system.  The contents of my post
> may be viewed here:
>
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0708.1/1959.html
>
> After 3 separate builds from "virgin sources" I still had the boot
> failure with the git4 level kernel.
>
> This afternoon I picked up the git5 patch and it comes up and appears to
> run without problem.

Great!

Next time, please reply to original report. It is much easier to track bugs.

>
> Same base system.  Same hardware.  Same build process.
>
> So even though I have only been building and running "pre-release"
> kernels for a short time I feel confident in saying that something was
> not kosher with the git4 patch - at least when it came to my system.
>
> (system configuration data is in the original post)
>
> I would not normally burn the valuable time of others with a rhetorical
> post but I looked at the changes out into the git5 patch and did not
> spot anything that looked like it would have resolved the issue I was
> having and I hate not being  able to correlate a cause and effect here.
>
> Any clues, or did I just get lucky with this one?
>

I guess the problem is fixed.

Regards,
Michal

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