From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752779AbXDAA1h (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:27:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752817AbXDAA1h (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:27:37 -0400 Received: from smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.227]:54405 "HELO smtpout06.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752779AbXDAA1g (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:27:36 -0400 Message-ID: <460EFC76.4060808@seclark.us> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:27:34 -0400 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel , Adrian Bunk , Francois Romieu , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems References: <460EC109.5070300@seclark.us> <20070331134610.64a9c410.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070331134610.64a9c410.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark wrote: > > > >>Hello, >> >>I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it >>failed on both. >> >>Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in >>interrupt routine >>for my rtl8139. >> >>This device works fine in 2.6.20.2 >> >> > >That's regression #1. Are you able to take a photograph of the screen >when it has crashed? Setting the display to 50 rows would make that more >useful. (serial console would be better, but I assume that thing has >no serial port). > > > >>The other laptop is a hp n5430 it fail in the ali-pata driver not being >>able to read the cdrom, timeing out >>and dropping into a bash shell telling me to tell it where the root >>filesystem is. >> >> > >That's #2, I guess. > > > >>Also it sets my hard >>drive to udma/33 when it run find at udma/66 under 2.6.20.1. >> >> > >#3. Hopefully it's related to #2. > >Please send the full dmesg output for 2.6.20.1 on the n5430. > > > >>It would >>really be nice if the people makeing >>all these changes would at least keep things compatible with what they >>were before. These are regressions >>guys! >> >> > >We try ;) > > > >>This hp n5430 system works fine with 2.6.20.1. >> >> > >Thanks, it helps. > > > > I'll see if I can get a serial port console setup on each laptop, failing that I'll take a photo. Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)