Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v2)

Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-04T13:24:38Z

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 compared to 2.6.19
> that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.
>
> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly
> involved with one or more of these issues.
>
> Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.

I hope I cut it down sensibly...

[...]

> Subject : SPARC64: Can't mount /
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/181
> Submitter : Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
> Status : unknown

Works for me now with 2.6.20-rc3. Might have been some form of pilot error
(perhaps setting SCSI_TGT=m and/or SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y, I unset them for the
current trial run).

I see CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC introduced in
21db1882f79a1ad5977cae6766376a63f60ec414 ([SCSI] Add Kconfig option for
asynchronous SCSI scanning). If this is the cause, the override provided:

scsi_mod.scan="sync"

seems not to work. Are the '"' necessary? How do you give them via silo,
which in its configuration file for strings with spaces uses:

append="some string here"

How do you say '"'? The silo documentation is silent on this.
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