Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

["Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>]

On 3/13/07, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:24 -0700
>
> > On 3/13/07, Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 3/13/07, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > > We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.3 kernel.
> > > > It contains a number of bugfixes and all 2.6.20 users are recommended to
> > > > upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below.
> > > >
> > > > I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
> > > > 2.6.20.2 and 2.6.20.3.
> > >
> > > Compared to 2.6.20.1 (will try 2.6.20.2 as well), I now get:
> >
> > err, duh -- this is a Sun Ultra 60, debian testing install.
>
> Figure out if 2.6.20.2 does it too, then please try to git bisect
> it down further.

Yep, that's the plan, just wanted to make folks aware.

> I took a quick look and the two sparc64 commits between 2.6.20.1
> and 2.6.20.2 are benign, a fix for E450 interrupts and a kenvctrld
> fix which is for a driver for hardware your ultra60 doesn't have. :)
>
> There is a decent amount of raid and nfs fixes in here, do you
> use either?

Neither.

> Another commit that might be relevant is:
>
> commit 530b09160744a12450fdacb2b78779c9830a29c8
> Author: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aristeu.sergio@gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Mar 1 19:02:55 2007 -0500
>
>     tty_io: fix race in master pty close/slave pty close path
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Please let us know if you can narrow it down further.

Building 2.6.20.2 right now, will let you know.

Thanks,
Nish