Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc7 hpt366 driver broken

From: Mike Mattie
Date: Mon Apr 16 2007 - 07:38:48 EST


On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:48:46 -0700
Mike Mattie <codermattie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am testing the 2.6.21-rc7 kernel release. The IDE hpt366 driver is
> crashing hanging the boot. I have basically the same config as
> 2.6.20.7 which works fine (except for netconsole mentioned in a
> previous mail).
>
> here is the hand-copied info:
>
> * "unable to handle paging request" , null deref
> * EIP @ init_chipset_hpt366
>

> I am running a git-bisect to see if I can resolve it to a commit.

This was identified as the first broken commit:

commit 7b73ee05d0acb926923d43d78b61add776ea4bb1
Author: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 7 18:18:16 2007 +0100

hpt366: init code rewrite

Reverting is conflicted so it will be a bit longer before I pin-point any other build-breaks.

> Cheers,
> Mike Mattie

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