Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression

From: Daniel Ritz
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 13:07:51 EST


On Thursday 30 August 2007 01:21:50 Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Il Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:29:56AM +0200, Daniel Ritz ha scritto:
> > tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it.
> > the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying.
> > luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one:
> >
> > cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit
>
> I've just bisected down to the same commit. In my case the fan is locked
> at maximum speed and the system is *extremly* slow (some kind of
> throttling?).
>
> Alexey, I've seen the patch, I'll test it tomorrow and report back.
>

i've just tested the minimal fix here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8958#c7
works good so far. fan starts and system is responsive.

> Luca

rgds
-daniel


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