On Mon, Oct 15 2007 at 19:57 +0200, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a >>> failed GDTH probe? >> Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix? >> >> That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier. >> James? Boaz? > > FWIW, the gdth driver was "super-messy". With this latest SCSI pull, > that severity has been successfully downgraded to "messy" :) > > IMO some easy-to-fix breakage was inevitable with such a large volume of > fundamental changes. > > Honestly, the driver is probably rarely run by people that lack the > hardware, I bet... > > Jeff
It was all "flight by instruments only". I called for HW testers and none came forward. All these changes, apart from "successful downgrade to messy" where also needed in order to push important changes to scsi. But a little bird said that QEMU might simulate this HW. SO I guess it is QEMU time for me. Boaz - 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/
