Re: 2.6.8-rc3-mm1 & mm2 break k3b

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Aug 10 2004, Robert Crawford wrote:
> I posted this on the Con Kolivas kernel list, and he suggested I post
> here, regarding 2.6.8-rc3-mm kernels. I'm no expert by any means, but
> have been testing kernels since 2.5.67, and have posted about kernels
> on the Gentoo & PCLOS forums, among others.
> 
> "Just tested the latest staircase7.I with 2.6.8-rc3 vanilla, and
> 2.6.8-rc3-mm2, and both work fine- no problems I can see so far on my
> test box. However,  2.6.8-rc3-mm1 and mm2 both still break my k3b cd
> burning software, with these errors (using cdrecord 2.1a33, on Gentoo)
> :
> 
> Unable to determine the last tracks data mode. using default cdrecord
> returned an unknown error (code 12) Cannot allocate memory
> 
> Sometimes it says to lower the burn speed, even when it's set to 4x
> (on a 48x burner), but that doesn't solve the problem. I get the same
> errors.
> 
> This doesn't occur with all previous mm kernels (up to 2.6.8-rc2-mm2),
> or any other kernel I've tried, and not with any ck patches, so I'm
> convinced it's the rc3-mm patches causing this, and not anything ck."
> If I boot with other kernels, same hardware, same config file, k3b
> works perfectly.

Try 2.6.8-rc4, please.

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Jens Axboe