Re: Regression for 3.0-rc1 - bisected to commit ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jun 04 2011 - 06:12:14 EST


On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With kernel 3.0-rc1 and an openSUSE 11.4 distro, my HP dv2815nr notebook
> fails to boot. Bisection leads to the following:
>
> finger@larrylap:~/linux-2.6> git bisect bad
> ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca is the first bad commit
> commit ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca
> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Apr 21 20:54:44 2011 +0200
>
>    cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open

This sounds like the infinite disk change bug that was mistakenly
re-introduced in -rc1 by a bad merge.

It should be fixed by commit 0f48f2600911 ("block: fix mismerge of the
DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE removal"), so current -git should hopefully be
good.

Pls verify,

Linus
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