Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:09:33 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: [PANIC] ohci1394 & copy large files |
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On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:28:18PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:17:46 -0400 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote: > > | On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:00:24AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > | > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 00:13, Ben Collins wrote: > | > > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Marcel Lanz wrote: > | > > > Since 2.6.4 and still in 2.6.5 I get regurarly a Kernel panic if I try > | > > > to backup large files (10-35GB) to an external attached disc (200GB/JFS) via ieee1394/sbp2. > | > > > > | > > > Has anyone similar problems ? > | > > > | > > Known issue, fixed in our repo. I still need to sync with Linus once I > | > > iron one more issue and merge some more patches. > | > > | > Hi Ben ! > | > > | > I don't want to be too critical or harsh or whatever, but why don't you > | > just send such fixes right upstream instead of stacking patches for a > | > while in your repo ? From my experience, such "batching" of patches is > | > the _wrong_ thing to do, and typically, there is a major useability > | > issue with sbp2 that could have been "right" in 2.6.5 final and will not > | > be (so we'll have to wait what ? 1 or 2 monthes more now to have a > | > release kernel with a reliable sbp2) > | > | Because the fix was pretty extensive and needed testing. It was > | potentially more broken that the problem it was fixing. Sending untested > | patches to Linus is far worse than batching a few up and pushing to him. > > Was (is) it already being tested more extensively in the -mm patches > before going to Linus? Should/could be. E.g., that's what gregkh does, > and ACPI, etc.
That's what generally happens in our own repo, and if I get the chance to sync them to my bk tree, then that's what happens with -mm too. Wasn't the case here since I've been swamped for a little over a week.
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