From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265207AbUHPVM6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:12:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265544AbUHPVM6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.204]:14486 "EHLO mail4.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265207AbUHPVM5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:12:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:12:52 -0700 Message-Id: <200408162112.i7GLCqTB030682@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: "Michael Kerrisk" X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] waitid system call In-Reply-To: Michael Kerrisk's message of Monday, 16 August 2004 19:15:37 +0200 <10992.1092676537@www28.gmx.net> X-Zippy-Says: My nose feels like a bad Ronald Reagan movie... Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Precisely what kernel version was the patch against? It is against 2.6.8.1. > I've (twice) tried applying the patch against 2.6.8.1 and building the > kernel. The build succeeds, but I am running into a strange kernel panic > ("Unable to mount root fs") when I try to boot the resulting kernel. > (Compiling and booting 2.6.8.1 on the same x86 machine works fine.) Well, it sure works fine for me. Unless someone else can reproduce your issue, you'll have to look into it yourself. I don't discount the likelihood it's a bug caused by my patch, but such an error is so far afield that there is no way for me to guess at what you might be seeing. Thanks, Roland