On Sunday 06 July 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
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> > On Sunday 06 July 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > > But Andrey - if you are on-line and have access to the machine, one t=
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> > > to try would be to just do a=20
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> > > 	git revert e872154921a6b5
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> > > in case it really was that particular commit. It seems to revert clea=
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> > > (although I didn't actually check if the result then compiled/worked).
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> > Looks much better; I am writing this now under 2.6.26-rc8 with above
> > commit reverted.
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> Ok, that's certainly pretty conclusive. Thanks for the great console logs=
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> making it so straightforward to narrow it down to this (even if it was=20
> just a wild guess - with your extensive logs it was still fairly=20
> informed).
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> Greg, Alan, David - at this point I think the commit should just be=20
> reverted. We're past -rc9, and unless either of you can see some obvious=
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> alternate fix (eg some bug in the commit that explains Adrey's problems=20
> that can just be fixed), I'm not seeing any good alternatives.
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> I don't know what the hardware details are, but based on the bootup=20
> messages it seems to be a Toshiba motherboatd with an ALI 1535 chipset - =
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> think it's a Toshiba Portege 4000 (which would mean that the OHCI=20
> controlle is the ALI M5237).
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yes

{pts/0}% lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ALi Corporation M1644/M1644T Northbridge+Triden=
t [10b9:1644] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller [10b9:5247]
00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:523=
7] (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Li=
nk Controller Audio Device [10b9:5451] (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [A=
laddin IV/V/V+] [10b9:1533]
00:08.0 Bridge [0680]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [P=
MU] [10b9:7101]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Etherne=
t Pro 100 [8086:1229] (rev 08)
00:10.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Co=
ntroller [104c:ac50] (rev 01)
00:11.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to=
 Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support [1179:0617] (rev 32)
00:11.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to=
 Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support [1179:0617] (rev 32)
00:12.0 System peripheral [0880]: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Cont=
roller [1179:0805] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade X=
PAi1 [1023:8820] (rev 82)

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
        Product Name: PORTEGE 4000
        Version: PP400E-0CJPX-0V
        Serial Number: Z1109698G
        UUID: 440FA000-001B-11D6-8000-C3D0A1109698
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch



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> For all I know, that may not be the best possible chipset out there, but=
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> it's not something extremely odd either. The machine may be a bit long in=
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> the tooth by now (I think it's a 750MHz PIII in there), but that may also=
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> explain why most developers wouldn't have seen this issue..
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> Hmm?
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> 			Linus
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