Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: What version of the kernel was this analysis done with? The workaround in yaird is explicitly commented as existing for the benefit of older kernel versions; can you assure us that this aspect of the driver design is unchanged from 2.6.8 through

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:00:50AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: When ide-generic is included (it is loaded after all the native ide modules), the kernel boots fine. The reason is that in the Debian 2.6.8 sources the ide-generic initialization procedure contains the call to ide_scan_pcibus(),

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:12:42AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:00:50AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: When ide-generic is included (it is loaded after all the native ide modules), the kernel boots fine. The reason is that in the Debian 2.6.8 sources the ide-generic

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:10:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I've done a little poking of my own at sysfs based on the comments in the yaird code. I can confirm that it is possible for a PCI IDE driver to be listed as associated with a PCI device without actually being the driver used to

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:40:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:10:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I've done a little poking of my own at sysfs based on the comments in the yaird code. I can confirm that it is possible for a PCI IDE driver to be listed as

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Mmm. When this was happening, could you use and mount partition on this device ? And when doing so, do you know which of ide-generic or cmd64x would be used to read the drive ? Are you suggesting that loading cmd64x

Bug#351685: udev storm: pcmcia CF adapter device file constantly deleted, recreated

2006-03-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 09, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see this bug was moved to linux-2.6. However, there is also a udev bug #350235 filed for the same problem. While it appears there is a major udev component (the UI always gets the heat), it also appears to be a kernel component as well since a

Bug#354995: linux-2.6: The bug has been fixed upstream in 2.6.16

2006-03-10 Thread Modestas Vainius
Package: linux-2.6 Followup-For: Bug #354995 Hello, As the subject states, the bug has been fixed upstream in 2.6.16-rc5. I have tested this kernel myself and the clock _no longer_ runs too fast without passing 'noapic' or 'no_timer_check' parameter to the kernel. The relevant excerpt from the

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:10:27AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Mmm. When this was happening, could you use and mount partition on this device ? And when doing so, do you know which of ide-generic or cmd64x would be

Bug#348782: linux-image-2.6-686: [aha152_cs] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPUU#0!

2006-03-10 Thread Philippe Bourcier
hi all, On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:40:52PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:00:43PM +0100, Philippe Bourcier wrote: debian 2.6.15-8 doesn't resolve: did you try the version of experimental as indicated in the announce mail you were quoting? see below I

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Looks like the two days rest is getting irrelevant...) On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:50 -0800 (PST) Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: What version of the kernel was this analysis done with? The

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:28:07PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: That patch has been dropped starting with the release of 2.6.15-1 Debian kernel packages, according to changelog. Yes. It is also noted as being dropped in 2.6.14-6. The first of my collected[1] Bugreports[2] indicated

Bug#356172: kernel 2.6.15 for 686 can't mount root fs

2006-03-10 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Package: kernel-image-2.6.15-686 (related packages: initramfs-tools) Severity: critical I've tried to submit this bug report using reportbug twice, but I have a feeling it didn't go through since I didn't get a confirmation. But I'm hoping my report will help someone solve the IDE mess, so

Processed: Re: Bug#356172: kernel 2.6.15 for 686 can't mount root fs

2006-03-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 356172 linux-2.6 Bug#356172: kernel 2.6.15 for 686 can't mount root fs Warning: Unknown package 'kernel-image-2.6.15-686' Bug reassigned from package `kernel-image-2.6.15-686' to `linux-2.6'. -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if

Processed: Re: Bug#356172: kernel 2.6.15 for 686 can't mount root fs

2006-03-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 356172 initramfs-tools Bug#356172: kernel 2.6.15 for 686 can't mount root fs Bug reassigned from package `linux-2.6' to `initramfs-tools'. -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:53:18 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:28:07PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: That patch has been dropped starting with the release of 2.6.15-1 Debian kernel packages, according to

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Sven Luther wrote: That means that jonas's fear of breaking self-built kernels is vastly unfunded, and that he should remove those hacks, include a mention of the broken kernels in the README file, and maybe propose a fixed yaird to stable-proposed-updates or something. yaird is not in

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jurij Smakov wrote: That patch has been dropped starting with the release of 2.6.15-1 Debian kernel packages, according to changelog. I tested my 2.6.12 machine last night, and it does indeed require ide-generic. My empirical results agree with your analysis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:29, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: If modular-ide is the sole source of trouble here, then what worked in 2.6.14-4 and earlier? =2.6.12 used initrd-tools and that must still contain the correct magic to deal with this. 2.6.14 was the first kernel tested with yaird and

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:07:34 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 15:29, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: If modular-ide is the sole source of trouble here, then what worked in 2.6.14-4 and earlier? =2.6.12 used initrd-tools and that must still contain the correct

via pt880 ultra and agpgart on amd64?

2006-03-10 Thread Rafal Zawadzki
Hi sergio. I found your email http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/02/msg00510.html about adding support for pt880 ultra. My agp chipset is PT880ULTRA, but my architecture is amd64. Your solution is based on via-agp kernel module, which has i86_32 dependency. I tried to remove this

linux-2.6 2.6.15-8 MIGRATED to testing

2006-03-10 Thread Debian testing watch
FYI: The status of the linux-2.6 source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 2.6.15-7 Current version: 2.6.15-8 -- This email is automatically generated; [EMAIL PROTECTED] is responsible. See http://people.debian.org/~henning/trille/ for more information.

Bug#349354: initramfs-tools - kernel -udev dependency loop

2006-03-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 08:01 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:54:33PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, 0.53 is in testing now (maybe a day or two ago). But again, with the new initramfs-tools unpacked (but not configured): Setting up udev (0.085-1) ...

Bug#356310: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: grub error 18 selected cylinder exceeds... when loading kernel on Thinkpad

2006-03-10 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 Version: 2.6.15-8 Severity: important Booting from 2.6.15-8 on a Thinkpad 770X causes grub to fail when loading the kernel, with error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Downgrading to 2.6.15-7 solves the problem. -- System Information:

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: If modular-ide is the sole source of trouble here, then what worked in 2.6.14-4 and earlier? The bugreports seem to indicate that things broke in 2.6.14-5 that worked in 2.6.14-4. And it seems nothing related else than linux-2.6 changed then - not