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

2006-03-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:28:57 -0500 Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I believe it is important for yaird to apply same strict logic to all Linux kernels, official or not. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Thanks. I think the following has been

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

2006-03-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Version: 0.0.12-5 On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:51:22 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice that on wednesday, this bug will be open since 3 month, if i am not wrong, Ah - for some reason my bug-closing hint in changelog was ignored. How very annoying... - Jonas -- * Jonas

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

2006-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:58:58AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Version: 0.0.12-5 On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:51:22 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice that on wednesday, this bug will be open since 3 month, if i am not wrong, Ah - for some reason my bug-closing hint in

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

2006-03-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Do you consider the following a reasonable resolution?: Sounds fine to me. Though it looks like your changelog entry has been mangled a little: bug#345067 (thanks especially to Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] bug#for -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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

2006-03-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:07:14 -0500 Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Do you consider the following a reasonable resolution?: Sounds fine to me. Great. :-) Though it looks like your changelog entry has been mangled a little: bug#345067 (thanks

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

2006-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:58:58AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Version: 0.0.12-5 On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:51:22 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice that on wednesday, this bug will be open since 3 month, if i am not wrong, Ah - for some reason my bug-closing hint in

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

2006-03-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:55:48 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:58:58AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Version: 0.0.12-5 On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:51:22 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice that on wednesday, this bug will be open since

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

2006-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:55:48 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:58:58AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Version: 0.0.12-5 On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:51:22 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL

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

2006-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
For info, ... It seems that i am to get blamed for everything that went badly after all, and it is perfectly normal for jonas not to aknowledge the effort i put into solving this issue, while he was just ignoring it and putting out random crazy theories for not acting. I am disgusted with how

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

2006-03-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:28:12 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jonas believes it is more important to not break whatever the user may do, rather than have good support for official kernels, No, I believe those use cases are equally important. I believe it is important for yaird to

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

2006-03-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:13:42 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, you applied a workaround patch without caution and without understanding fully the issue, while strongly refused when i did the same, and furthermore in a much less intrusive way. Thank you

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

2006-03-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:34:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:13:42 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, you applied a workaround patch without caution and without understanding fully the issue, while strongly refused when i did the same,

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

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I believe it is important for yaird to apply same strict logic to all Linux kernels, official or not. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I think the following has been discovered: 1. The ide-generic requirement was added by the modular IDE patch, which Debian included

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

2006-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:48:11AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: 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

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

2006-03-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:52:42 -0800 (PST) Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:35:23AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:35:38PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Sven Luther wrote: As quoted from http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem, it is no clear that ide-generic and via82cxxx to take only one

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

2006-03-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:43:03 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:30:47AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:35, Jurij Smakov wrote: Looking at the code I cannot see how the native drivers can depend in any way on the ide-generic being

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

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:08:04PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:08:33AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Steve, what is the interest of doing this ? We only have 2.6.15 currently in sid/etch, and sarge uses 2.6.8 together with initrd-tool, so it is a non-issue.