On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Mws wrote: > > > > if you would be so kind to provide me some infos, > > > > how i would be able to track the problem down _and_ maybe how to fix it. > > The first step is to figure out as exactly as possible _when_ it started > happening. > > > please find two snippets of dmesg after booting 2.6.21-rc3-git > > (2.6.20-1 has got the same results) > > So is 2.6.19 good? 2.6.20-rc1? -rc2?
went down to 2.6.17 - earlier is lacking due to correctly booting my machine. > If you're a git user (or even just marginally interested in learning), the > best thing to do is to find some good kernel (the more recent, the better, > but the keyword is *some* kernel that works well), and a bad kernel (the > older the better, just to avoid unnecessary work, but again, you can just > take the most recent too), and then just use "git bisect". > > If you bisect it down to one particular commit, that will help us a lot, > but even if you only bisect it down by booting a handful of kernels (say, > 5-6), it will already have cut things down a lot, and probably more easily > and efficiently than if you just downloaded daily snapshots and tried to > narrow it down that way. > > Linus i started to bring in a load of printk's into v4l dvb repository to find out what exactly is causing the interrupt to appear and why it is not handled. the bug is reproducible by insmod/rmmod dvb_ttpci over and over. yesterday late night i tried a bit too much and my machine freezed as a whole. even kernel sysrq didn't work anymore. i found some point, that after fireware load the interrupt is fired again. will check if there is a solution to create a workaround and try to fix it afterwards. it does NOT appear on a different computer same card. i think it is a problem in combination chipset - card - bios.... dunno by now, but will find out. thanks for your information, linus. marcel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
