Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 (cannot read cd-rom, 2.6.12-rc1 is OK)

[Steven Cole]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Steven Cole <elenstev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > I found a few more minutes to test two more kernels.  The problem
> > > > first occured with 2.6.12-rc1-mm2:
> > > >
> > > > 2.6.12-rc1     reads the cd-rom OK as reported earlier
> > > > 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 also reads the cd-rom OK
> > > > 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 broken same as -mm3 described as above
> > > > 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 broken as reported earlier
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you really really sure about that?  -mm3 included both the bk-ide-dev
> > > tree and the isofs changes.  2.6.12-rc1-mm2 had neither.
> >
> > Just to be really really sure, I repeated the tests.  I even checked
> > that the image/label combination in /etc/lilo.conf was what I intended,
> > but the uname -r should show what's what.
> >
> > Same results, -mm2 broken, and -mm1 reads the disk.  I even tried
> > other CD's just to make sure I didn't have something weird.  Same results.
>
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> It would be interesting to copy a CD to hard disk (under -mm1) and see if
> it works OK with the loopback driver.
>
> Also, boot into -mm2 and do a `cmp' of the cdrom with the image which is on
> hard-disk.
>
> This should help us work out whether it's isofs, the driver, the VFS or
> whatever.
> -

It seems that I've run out of time here today.  If this is still an issue
after the weekend, I'll do the above tests.

Until then, Happy Easter.

Steven
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