Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:15:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> - Lots of updates and fixes all over the place.
>> - On my test box there is no flashing cursor on the vga console.  Known bug,
>>   please don't report it.
>>   Binary searching shows that the bug was introduced by
>>   cleanup-vc-array-access.patch but that patch is, unfortunately, huge.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:18:57PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> autofs has exploded far, far beyond complete nonfunctionality, where
> in prior 2.6.x it was not quite so blatantly a doorstop preventing all
> logins on the machine, and, in fact, multiuser mode altogether.
> Whoever's responsible, prepare to be flamed to a crisp the likes of
> which has never been witnessed before by observers of solar probes, nor
> conceived of by the most visionary and imaginative of eschatologists.

Looks like I just need to smack the hands of whoever blew away modutils.
I worked around this properly, by fully demodularizing the kernel.
Anyway, thus far ppc64 comes up clean with no patches, ia64 comes up
clean with clameter's mmtimer patch. Other arches pending.


-- wli