Re: 2.6.7-ck1

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
|
| On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Con Kolivas wrote:
|
|
|>Con Kolivas wrote:
|>
|>>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 04:35, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
|>>
|>>
|>>>Hi Con,
|>>>
|>>>I have two problems with 2.6.7-ck1. My distribution is Gentoo Linux
|>>>unstable with all latest updates. Oh, yes, both 2.6.7-ck1 and 2.6.7-rc3
|>>>I tested have vesafb-tng applied from http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/, but
|>>>it should not cause any problems because it is very non-intrusive
patch I
|>>>think. Maybe you should include this in your patchset?
|>>>
|>>>1. When booting init script freezes after starting input hotplugging (it
|>>>is udev system). The only way to make it run is to press Ctrl-Alt-SysRQ
|>>>and various keys to display kernel state several times. After that
system
|>>>starts normally. I do not know if it is only -ck problem because I had
|>>>no time to test 2.6.7 vanilla, but 2.6.7-rc3 worked fine. (Log
included.)
|>>
|>>
|>>Yes I have a sneaking suspicion it's related to the fact kernel
threads are
|>>fixed priority at the moment in staircase (they dont descend priority
like
|>>normal tasks so act like relatively low priority real time tasks). I'm
|>>addressing that for the next version so hopefully that will fix it.
|>
|>Here's a diff for -ck1 which brings you up to staircase7.1
|>Can you try that?
|
|
| It does not solve the problem for me, sorry...

Ok I'll keep looking. That change was necessary anyway.

Thanks,
Con
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFA1GvtZUg7+tp6mRURAk4MAJ9xJ49Mwyv/Qlb5M4Dm8acsto5kRgCdEtIp
WE4lkMOxIh3HB+IET/oEs9c=
=4ayV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----