Re: 2.6.20.7 locking up hard on boot

From: Len Brown
Date: Sat Apr 21 2007 - 22:06:16 EST


On Saturday 21 April 2007 06:54, Marcos Pinto wrote:
> It took me several hours, but I just got done combing things over with
> bisect as Greg requested. This is what git spit out as the problem
> patch in the end:
>
> 7639e962234c76031d1ddf436def7fd9602be560 is first bad commit
> commit 7639e962234c76031d1ddf436def7fd9602be560
> Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Mar 13 14:04:11 2007 -0400
>
> adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2)
>
> adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2)
>
> The change to force legacy mode IDE channels' resources to fixed non-zero
> values confuses (at least some versions of) X, because the values reported
> by the kernel and those readable from PCI config space aren't consistent
> anymore. Therefore, this patch arranges for the respective BARs to also
> get updated if possible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>
> :040000 040000 d4ee6822208dc3e205bfc92fd30121e7894e63a9
> 5155044aa75f0d2671e7f5081f5b2999f24034bd M drivers
> bisect run success
>

Looks like others are seeing failures due to this patch also:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7562

-Len

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