From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964852AbWARCmR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:42:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964854AbWARCmQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:42:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30398 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964852AbWARCmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:42:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:33:18 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeff Garzik Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Reuben Farrelly Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates Message-Id: <20060117183318.1031c0d2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060118021530.GA23108@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20060118021530.GA23108@havoc.gtf.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git I worry that whatever it is which has busted Reuben's machine will leak into mainline. This patch probably isn't it. I guess if we can feed libata and acpi into mainline in little bits and pieces like this, that'll help us work out the cause. Reuben has spent ages bisecting lots of patches, but the bug is quite intermittent, which makes the process quite maddeningly error-prone and slow. Then again, perhaps merging it up is the best way of fixing it: someone out there will hit the thing more repeatably and will have a better shot at finding the cause.