From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263592AbTLXLcL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:32:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263593AbTLXLcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:32:10 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:53409 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263592AbTLXLcH (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:32:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:32:00 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: GCS Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Osterlund , Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: 2.6.0-mm1 Message-Id: <20031224033200.0763f2a2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031224095921.GA8147@lsc.hu> References: <20031224095921.GA8147@lsc.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org GCS wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:11:31AM +0200, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It would be appreciated if people who have > > significant patches in -mm could retest please. > It seems I can write CDs on my laptop now. AFAICR I was last trying it on > test8, but it was the same: if the image is over ~400Mb, the machine > freezes hard. If it's shorter, then it's ok, but still some lock or sth > is not unlocked, as the CPU is used more and more about five secs by one > or two percent. Sooner or later it's crashed as well, but I could > restart the machine before that happened. Rebooting to 2.4.2x and > writing CDs there was working all the time. > So I do not know if it's fixed since test8, or in 2.6.0-mm1, but I am > happy with it. Also, I have two problems with 2.6.0-mm1: > - I can not deselect CONFIG_SCSI, only module or built-in available. > Maybe something is depend on it, but could not figure out what (no > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI, nothing is selected under CONFIG_SCSI). Yes, this part of the config system is hard. It always has been. It's similar to "wtf do I have to enable to make the menu appear. I bit of grepping tells us that CONFIG_USB_STORAGE turns on CONFIG_SCSI. > - I have a synaptics touchpad, which is detected correctly, but only > works if I set psmouse_noext=1. Under vanilla 2.6.0 it still works this > way, but with 2.6.0-mm1 it works only on the console, but not under > XFree86. Strange, as gpm interprets the input and pipes thru gpmdata > to XFree86 4.3.0. Any idea what broke this configuration? Peter or Dmitry may be able to tell us.