Re: Linux 2.5.5-dj1 - Bug Reports

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:21:49AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > It compiled fine. When I booted up everything looked normal with the
>  > exception of a 
>  > eth1: going OOM 
>  > message that kept scrolling down the screen. My eth1 is a natsemi card.
> 
>  That's interesting. Probably moreso for Manfred. I'll double check
>  I didn't goof merging the oom-handling patch tomorrow.
> 
>  > Eventually that stopped and gdm came up. For some reason my keyboard and
>  > mouse wouldn't work.
> 
>  -dj includes a different input layer to Linus' tree, which requires
>  some extra options enabled.  Vojtech, this is quite a frequent
>  'bug report', and I think if you merged that with Linus, the number
>  of reports would climb. Is there a possibility of simplifying the
>  config.in somewhat? Or at least changing the defaults to give the
>  element of least surprise..

The defaults are changed :(. However people coying their .configs over
don't use the defaults. The help files say what to do in case of doubt.
I'm not sure what more I can do.

I'll try to think about that.

>  > It got to check.c in fs/partitions before stopping with an error.
> 
>  That one I've not got an answer for. Can you give me more information
>  about your disk layout, partitions, number of disks, scsi?/ide?/lvm?
>  
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> | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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Vojtech Pavlik
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