Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:49:37 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> > >  drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c |  132 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > >  drivers/scsi/dpti.h    |    9 ++
> > >  2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> > 
> > I've done the following:
> > 
> > -untared a clean 2.6.24-rc4 and compiled it with my 2.6.23.1-settings in order
> >  to verify that the driver is still broken: checked, the box still won't 
> >  boot.
> > 
> > -patched the just compiled kernel source with your patch, "make dist-clean"
> >  (by means of "make-kpkg clean") and recompile: box boots fine.
> >
> > I've put the captured console logs to
> > http://w.sysiphus.de/dpt_i2o/bootlog.2624-rc4-pristine
> > http://w.sysiphus.de/dpt_i2o/bootlog.2624-rc4-patched
> > ... and the kernelconfig (which shouldn't matter) to
> > http://w.sysiphus.de/dpt_i2o/kernelconfig.2624-rc4
> 
> Thanks for testing. So reverting Matthew's hotplug patch fixes the
> problem though I have no idea how the patch leads to this. Seems that
> nobody has any clue on that. We need to revert that patch for the
> moment.

OK, thanks.  Let's leave it a couple of days for people to register objections,
have bright ideas, etc.