On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/22/2017 03:35 AM, Finn Thain wrote: > > The stuff in drivers/ide/ still has official maintainers, so we should > > probably try to find the regression, if that's what it is. > > I have my doubts given the fact that the drivers are currently > effectively broken and apparently no one before me noticed that. > > However, it should be easy to find the maintainers using > > scripts/get_maintainers.pl >
I know who they are. Why else would I state that drivers/ide/ has official maintainers? > > Unfortunately, I don't have access to suitable hardware right now, so > > I can't be of much help besides building kernel binaries for > > bisection. > > You don't need access to hardware. You can test the kernel just fine on > Aranym. I suppose that even if Aranym's IDE emulation is not 100% accurate, it should be good enough to expose various kinds of kernel bugs. So I agree that it is worth trying to bisect this on Aranym. > All you need is a simple root filesystem and an initrd which I can > provide. In fact, you can just use the kernel and initrd from the > debian-installer distribution: > > > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-installer-images_20170828_m68k.tar.gz > > Use the common kernel and the initrd for the CD-ROM installation. > Not useful for bisection. > >> For Falcon IDE, you can try the new driver under drivers/ata/, just > >> enable CONFIG_ATA and CONFIG_PATA_FALCON. > >> > > > > Last I heard, the IDE driver/libata conversion plan had been NAK'd. > > Has the IDE subsystem maintainer changed his mind? > > Why it should it be NAK'd? See link below. > The IDE/ATA subsystem maintainers want to get all the drivers ported > over to libata so they can eventually get rid of the old IDE stack. > Needless to say. And I know about the efforts of b.zolnier...@samsung.com towards that end. https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg53897.html Perhaps it would help if I said that I don't have any objection to libata. What interests me here is avoiding regressions in a useful body of code like the IDE core. If Debian Installer testers are also interested in that goal, all the better. -- > Adrian > >
