From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755409Ab0IYPQk (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:16:40 -0400 Received: from mail.wdtv.com ([66.118.69.84]:38373 "EHLO mail.wdtv.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752572Ab0IYPQj (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:16:39 -0400 From: Gene Heskett To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [00/80] 2.6.35.6 stable review Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:16:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35.6-rc1; KDE/4.5.1; i686; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20100924162706.GA7381@kroah.com> <201009241649.57150.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20100925150201.GA3964@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100925150201.GA3964@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009251116.35946.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday, September 25, 2010, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:49:57PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday, September 24, 2010, Greg KH wrote: >> >This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.35.6 release. >> >There are 80 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response >> >to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, >> >please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper >> >subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, >> >please respond with it. >> > >> >Responses should be made by Sunday September 26, 17:00:00 UTC >> >Anything received after that time might be too late. >> > >> >The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: >> > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.35.6- rc1.gz >> >> Hi Greg; I just pulled this about an hour ago, built it from a make >> oldconfig based on a flawlessly running 2.6.35.4. > >Please cc: me on messages, I don't read lkml as well as I should these >days due to travel. > >> 3 things I call regressions. >> >> 1. On rebooting to it, and launching kmail, cpu went to 100% of >> whatever core it skipped to on a 4 core amd phenom box with 4G of ram. >> Normally, kmail on a restart will check and rebuild its indices, The email corpus is around 7Gb. >> taking maybe 4 or 5 minutes to do this up till now, during that time >> keyboard/mouse interactivity lags a split second. This time it was 44 >> minutes before I got my machine back. At times the keyboard went dead >> for minutes at a time. I even went to the kitchen and got fresh >> batteries for it, only to have everything I had typed blind 2 minutes >> before, show up on screen while there was no batteries in it. > >Odd, can you try reverting the patch below to see if it makes things >better? I need to drop it as Jens said it might cause problems. Let me >know if that solves the problem or not please. This evening I should be able to report. >> 2. That I think is separate from the login screen, there I had no >> keyboard or mouse for a minute, but something finally registered and I >> was able to log in then. >> >> 3. My usb tree is not fully populated, this has been a frequent problem >> for the last year or so, udev often does not wait for responses long >> enough to trace a several hubs tall tree to the last branch so I have >> to crawl under and unplug the missing stuff later, which is then >> properly recognized when I plug it back into the same socket on the >> same hub. One of my often missing printers is 4 hubs away in the >> basement. > >These both sound like the same issue, you might want to work to resolve >them. I will give this patch a shot this evening, today's schedule is already shot, there's a sport show at Stonewall Jackson Lake & resort. >Oh, and 4 hubs distance, that's pushing the limits of USB, one flaky >cable and you are not going to have a working printer... > I may in fact have a flaky hub, the first one is a 7 port Alps brand and I've found it now has a bad port or 2. Lightning is a bitch, scheduled for a replacement now that I know about it. >thanks, > >greg k-h Thanks Greg, I'll be in touch. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) In buying horses and taking a wife shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God.