Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6

Marcelo Tosatti
2003-06-04T18:06:05Z

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Krzysiek Taraszka wrote:

> Dnia czw 29. maja 2003 21:56, Krzysiek Taraszka napisa?:
> > Dnia czw 29. maja 2003 21:11, Marcelo Tosatti napisa?:
> > > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Georg Nikodym wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:55:39 -0300 (BRT)
> > > >
> > > > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> > > > > Here goes -rc6. I've decided to delay 2.4.21 a bit and try Andrew's
> > > > > fix for the IO stalls/deadlocks.
> > > >
> > > > While others may be dubious about the efficacy of this patch, I've been
> > > > running -rc6 on my laptop now since sometime last night and have seen
> > > > nothing odd.
> > > >
> > > > In case anybody cares, I'm using both ide and a ieee1394 (for a large
> > > > external drive [which implies scsi]) and I do a _lot_ of big work with
> > > > BK so I was seeing the problem within hours previously.
> > >
> > > Great!
> > >
> > > -rc7 will have to be released due to some problems :(
> >
> > hmm, seems to ide modules and others are broken. Im looking for reason why
>
> hmm, for IDE subsystem the ide-proc.o was't made for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m ...
> anyone goes to fix it ? or shall I prepare and send here my own patch ?

Feel free to send your own patch, please :)