On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 16 2011, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > >> Thanks. I'll plan on sending Linus a revert of Guennadi's patch today, > >> assuming he doesn't release 2.6.39 within a few hours.. > > > > Hm, don't know... The patch _definitely_ fixes problems in some > > configurations, and _maybe_ causes problems in others. You cannot > > reproduce the problem. > > It looks like around six different people on: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118751 > > say that moving from 38.5 to 38.6 makes their system crash at boot > or resume time if they have an SD card inserted -- this seems like > reasonably strong evidence, and the problem being seen after the > patch (full system crash) is significantly worse than the problem > being seen before the patch (occasional misdetection of insertion). > > > Have you got a .config from the OP? > > Yes, http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/kernel26/repos/core-x86_64/config.x86_64. > I checked that it does indeed have CLKGATE=y. > > > We can also fix the problem in stable - whether it turns out to be my > > patch or not. > > It would be a shame to release with a boot crash, though. > > > Can you maybe wait for about 6 hours, until I get a chance to test > > this on my laptop? > > My intuition is that we should revert it now -- it's been a week since > the final -rc, so you'd expect .39 to be released today, and we can > always add your patch back into stable via .40-rc1 if it's not related > to the crashes. Ok, let's revert it then. Just we have to not forget to work on this problem and find a proper fix. Thanks Guennadi > > > No, I don't have archlinux on it. What distro(s) have you tried? Do > > all reporters use archlinux? > > I've tried Ubuntu. All reporters so far use Archlinux, but it's quite > plausible that we're only seeing the bug from Archlinux users because > only Archlinux has pushed out 2.6.38.6 to its users already.. > > Thanks, > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> <http://printf.net/> > One Laptop Per Child > --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
