Re: 2.6.24-rc6-git7: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

James Bottomley
2008-01-02T03:31:06Z

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 14:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Subject : Problems on booting
> > Submitter : "werner" <werner@copaya.yi.org>
> > Date : 2007-12-22 14:29
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/22/110
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9621
> > Handled-By :
> > Patch :
>
> Hmm. I assume the "-git6" and "-git7" are 2.6.24-rc4-gitX, ie commits
>
> - 2.6.24-rc5-git6: 3e3b3916a9c5c28a16528585478de19fea59816b
> - 2.6.24-rc5-git7: fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9
>
> and doing a
>
> gitk 3e3b3916a9..fbdcf18df7
>
> does show a SCSI merge, and two commits that touch drivers/scsi/initio.*.
>
> James, Alan and Boaz, ideas?

Initio has been suspected broken even after all the bug fixes (I
actually said that in the last pull request). We just couldn't get a
tester to confirm the suspicion. The commits were for known issues but
it proved impossible to get any of the reporters to verify.

Could you direct this poster to linux-scsi and we'll see if we can
finger the root cause (which will be difficult to do without getting a
boot trace).

James