Re: 2.6.16-rc5: known regressions

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Feb 27 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:54:17AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >Subject    : 2.6.16-rc[34]: resume-from-RAM unreliable (SATA)
> > >References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/20/159
> > >Submitter  : Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx>
> > >Handled-By : Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Status     : one of Randy's patches seems to fix it
> > 
> > 
> > This is not a regression, libata suspend/resume has always been crappy. 
> >  It's under active development (by Randy, among others) to fix this.
> 
> It might have always been crappy, but it is a regression since
> according to the submitter it is working with 2.6.15.

It might have worked under lucky circumstances with an idle disk and a
goat sacrifice, so I agree with Jeff that this is definitely not a
regression. To my knowledge, Mark always used my libata suspend patch on
earlier kernels so it's not even an apples-apples comparison.

So please scratch that entry.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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