Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, with a lot of people taking an xmas break, here's something to play
> with over the holidays (not to mention an excuse for me to get into the
> Glögg for real ;)
> 
> Mostly a lot of small fixes since 2.6.10-rc3, with the biggest thing being
> probably the CIFS update and the switch-over to the new DVB frontend
> driver world order.  Some MMC and USB work too, and ARM updates as usual.

Alas, It sort-of boots but is terminally slow. I see the log with 
endless repetitions of "irq 18 nobody cared" and some trace, then 
"disabling irq 18." Unfortunately it lies, after about 20MB of this I 
decided it had no real intention of disabling irq 18 and tried to stop 
it. After ten minutes I had to pull the plug and it's still cleaning 
filesystems.

I will dig through the log after it gets back up, but there is clearly a 
problem in the logic to ignore garbage irq's, or at least stop whining. 
If there is any similarity between the traces I'll post, but I suspect 
that it was one of those edge vs. level things by the behaviour.

Just a warning in case others are seeing a failure of irq disable to 
actually work.


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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979