Bug 105581 - R128 DRM always segfaults
Summary: R128 DRM always segfaults
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 107932
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jon Smirl
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
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Blocks: CambridgeBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-25 20:20 UTC by Jon Smirl
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:58:45 UTC
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Description Jon Smirl 2003-09-25 20:20:52 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703

Description of problem:
DRM is loaded...

eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[drm] Initialized r128 2.5.0 20030725 on minor 0
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
[jonsmirl@smirl fbdev-2.5]$

But all DRI programs Segfault....

[jonsmirl@smirl fbdev-2.5]$ gdb glxinfo
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.3.90-0.20030710.29rh)
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols
found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
 
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging
using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1077937824 (LWP 10135)]
(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...name of display: :0.0
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
[Switching to Thread 1077937824 (LWP 10135)]
0x405379cb in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x405379ce in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
(gdb)

I am using current Linus 2.6 tree for DRM drivers.
Radeon runs without problem.
2.8Ghz P4 Hyperthreading turned on
RHN account jonsmirl for hardware profile

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFree86-4.3.0-32

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use a R128
2. run a 3D program
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-26 00:27:07 UTC
>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>0x405379ce in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support ()
>   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so

The above SEGV will happen when you run any OpenGL application in a
debugger, as Mesa is testing for SSE exception, which causes a SEGV
on purpose.  When not in a debugger, the SEGV is handled by the
library, and it proceeds normally.  When in the debugger, the debugger
gets the SEGV instead of Mesa, so you need to do "cont" in gdb, to 
let it proceed to the real problem.  Please do this, and provide
an updated backtrace, however note that a backtrace without debugging
symbols is pretty useless.

I suspect the problem you're having however is due to the combination
of DRI plus exec-shield.  The DRI code allocates memory and then drops
code into it and executes it.  This worked before because malloc'd memory
was executable by default coincidentally, and so programmers just assume
memory is always executable from malloc(), and don't actually _request_
executable memory.

This is due to DRI not calling mprotect() with PROT_EXEC as a parameter
to mark the memory region as executable prior to trying to execute code
in it.  Why this problem happens now all of a sudden and didn't in the
past, is because Red Hat has written new security enhancement called
exec-shield, which disables executable stack, and also disables executable
memory by default.  This causes many programs not programmed correctly
to now break because they don't use PROT_EXEC.

If you disable exec-shield and this problem goes away, then we know it
is the same problem you are experiencing.

echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

Please let me know if that works around the problem.  If so, we are working
on trying to fix the broken DRI code right now, however it might be a while
before an update is available.

If the problem occurs wether or not exec-shield is enabled, then it is
probably some other bug.

Comment 2 Jon Smirl 2003-09-26 02:12:19 UTC
They segfault without the debugger too. Is there some way I can give you more
info on the segfault?

I am on 2.6-test5 + Linus bk kernel.

I don't think I have exec-shield.
/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
doesn't exist.

I am able to run DRI on my Radeon card without problem on same hardware and OS
install.

Also, this is a PCI Rage128
02:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PD/PRO TMDS

Comment 3 Jon Smirl 2003-09-26 02:26:28 UTC
I'm not getting anywhere trying to continue from gdb...

[root@smirl log]# gdb glxinfo
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.3.90-0.20030710.29rh)
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols
found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
 
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1077937824 (LWP 3228)]
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...name of display: :0.0
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
[Switching to Thread 1077937824 (LWP 3228)]
0x405379cb in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x405379ce in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0x405379ce in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
#1  0x405376f1 in check_os_sse_support () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
Couldn't get registers: No such process.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x405379ce in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
#1  0x405376f1 in check_os_sse_support () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
(gdb)


Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-26 03:06:18 UTC
I somehow missed the fact you're using a non-Red Hat kernel.  We don't support
user compiled kernels.  I'm adding Arjan and Dave to CC in case either are
interested/willing to investigate the 2.6 DRM issue at all.

If not though, I'll have to close this as NOTABUG as we don't support your
kernel, in which case your bug should be reported on lkml and/or dri-devel
and I neither use nor test 2.6.x as my hands are more than full with 2.4.x
and existing issues I need to support.

Any comments Arjan/Dave?

Comment 5 Jon Smirl 2003-09-26 04:34:59 UTC
I have verified that R128 works on 2.4 2051 SMP and UNI.

But it is definitely broken on 2.6 SMP.

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-26 05:21:52 UTC
Sounds to me like a bug in 2.6.x kernel DRM for r128.

Comment 7 Jon Smirl 2003-09-26 05:35:32 UTC
r128 worked fine on 2.6 until I upgraded to RawHide.

What about the changes that were made to build this?
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so

Can I force it to use non-tls version on SMP box?



Comment 8 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-26 05:44:42 UTC
Even if the problem is in XFree86, 2.6.x is not supported, so it's a very
low priority to even investigate.  It could be the TLS changes, or any number
of other things, or it could be a bug in the 2.6 kernel you're using.  Either
way, it's unsupported status makes investigating the issue a low priority
unless you can reproduce it on the kernel we ship.

Feel free however to debug the issue if you like, and if you find the cause
is a bug in our XFree86, and can isolate it, or pinpoint it down any further,
then there might be something I can do about it, however my priority is
getting XFree86 fixed and working on what we will be shipping and will be
supporting first and foremost, so any 2.6.x kernel related issues are low
priority.  I just don't have the engineering time to support 2 kernels nor
user compiled kernels.

HTH

Comment 9 Jon Smirl 2003-09-26 22:51:58 UTC
DRI CVS r128_dri.so works with the 2.6 kernel DRM driver so it's definitely the
r128_dri.so files in the Rawhide build that are the culprit. I checked both the
tls and non-tls versions and both are broken on 2.6. So this doesn't look like a
TLS issue. 

The Radeon dri.so files from Rawhide work on 2.6 without problem.

Comment 10 Mike A. Harris 2003-09-27 01:05:15 UTC
Feel free to attach patches that fix the problem for you with 2.6.x kernels,
and I'll review them for integration if you like.

Comment 11 Mike A. Harris 2003-10-08 22:44:57 UTC
Deferring for investigation once kernel 2.6.x gets integrated into the
distribution officially.  If anyone has patches for X or for the kernel
which fix this problem in the mean time, feel free to attach them and
reopen this for review earlier.

Comment 12 Jon Smirl 2003-10-19 19:22:09 UTC
Gentoo has hit similar problem.
Fix may be the same:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30541

Comment 13 Mike A. Harris 2003-10-19 19:29:45 UTC
Could be perhaps...  however the proposed Gentoo solution is "break the system
for many 2.4.x Pentium III/IV users by disabling the patch that fixes the
problem for them" so that 2.6.x works for the relative few people brave enough
to experiment with it.

I won't even consider any solution that regresses existing behaviour in
a supported configuration.  We don't support the 2.6.x kernel until it is
officially released, and in rawhide at least.  If people want to submit
patches in the mean time, which fix bugs without creating regressions,
feel free to chase the bugs.  ;o)

Comment 14 Donnie Berkholz 2003-10-20 02:21:00 UTC
A minor correction to the Gentoo solution. We perform a compile-time check for a
2.4 kernel, and if that is the case, apply the patch. Otherwise, the patch isn't
applied. Yes this screws things up when moving from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel, but
it works for 2.6 people and it works for 2.4 people. After discussing some with
Mike, a runtime hack would probably be best.

Comment 15 Mike A. Harris 2003-10-20 07:34:01 UTC
Just to clarify from our discussion...

I believe that a runtime check is superior to a compile time check, as it
should then just work no matter what the kernel is on the system.  Also,
there is never any guarantee whatsoever that the kernel installed and running
on the machine *compiling* the software, is the kernel which will be used
on the machine *running* the software.  For example, our buildsystems are
all running one Linux 2.4.x kernel or another, and probably will be for
the forseeable future.  Our buildsystems don't necessarily reflect the kernel
the user is using to run the software.

In general compile time checks like that are very bad, at least for the
case of a software distributor, for this reason alone.  So there's pretty
much no way I'd even remotely consider doing a compile time hack like that.

While I think doing a runtime hack is a bit better, it's only marginally
better, as it is ignoring the *real* problem and just bandaiding over it,
which has the side effect usually of nobody ever caring to fix the real
problem as the ugly hacks end up being deemed "good enough".

As such, I won't apply a compile time nor runtime hack for this to our
XFree86 package, as I'd like to see the issue fixed by someone properly
at some point in time, and not just permanently bandaided over.  That someone
could even perhaps be me, but it isn't a priority until we're shipping the
2.6.x kernel, and by that time, we'll also be shipping XFree86 4.4.0 more
likely than not, and I've got a feeling the problem will have just magically
disappeared by then.  ;o)

That said, it would however be useful information to know either way if
disabling the Mesa patch does in fact work around the specific problem
reported in this bug report.  Jon, if you can test and confirm that, it might
help to quantify the extent of the problem along with other bug reports, and
may justify allocation of resources sooner than later.

TIA

Comment 16 Mathias Fröhlich 2003-11-03 09:15:16 UTC
This comment is a bit offtopic, but something to think about.

Mike, you tell us that RedHat will *not* support 2.6 as long as you
don't include it at least in rawhide. Ok, from a pure business point
of view.
But remember why Linus states he will call beta versions of the kernel
with an even number suffixed with testx. He wants to get testers. Many
testers. Testers which won't test the software as long as they expect
too much trouble with testing.
And then RedHat, which, in some sense, depends on this kernel
development work, tells the community that RedHat sees that this DRI
problem is a bug in RedHat's XFree rpm but RedHat does not care.
Reading something like: "Build your own XFree rpms and backout that
patch if you need to. We don't care ..."
Don't you think that this will prevent users from using 2.6.0-test?
Using 2.6.0-test to do their usual work. And while doing this find
some problems with it. Help to eliminate those problems.
... and then run against a wall at RedHat.

I don't want that you _support_ 2.6 within a given time to fix or
something like that. But you could help development with not simply
rejecting such requests.

    Greetings

       Mathias Fröhlich

Comment 17 Mike A. Harris 2003-11-03 10:03:45 UTC
>Mike, you tell us that RedHat will *not* support 2.6 as long as you
>don't include it at least in rawhide. Ok, from a pure business point
>of view.

No.  That really has nothing to do with business.  We have designed
and tested the entire Fedora Core 1 OS around the 2.4 kernel.  Arjan
has produced unofficial rpms of the 2.6.x kernel in order both for
people who want them to have something easy and prebuilt to play
with, and also since he is a kernel developer and wanting people to
test 2.6.x out earlier and help get the upstream 2.6.x kernel
stabilized sooner.

Me and John are but 2 developers here with finite time, and we don't
have the time to support XFree86 on 2 completely different kernels.

I could easily spend 2 weeks or more of my time right now trying to
fix known problems in the XFree86 4.3.0 code which will happen on
2.6.x kernels.  That time would be mostly wasted since we will be
shipping XFree86 4.4.0 with the next OS release along with a 2.6.x
kernel more likely than not.  Either 4.4.0 will not have these
problems due to being fixed hopefully upstream, or they'll be a
priority in the development of Fedora Core 2 for us to fix.

There is a *FINITE* amount of time for me to fix bugs before Fedora
Core 1 shipped.  Now I could waste that time installing a 2.6.x
kernel, possibly frying my working system and having to reinstall
the OS, and then to debug the various reported issues, as well
as working on other known issues that XFree86 has with newer kernels
which users haven't ran into or noticed yet.  *OR* I could fix
bugs and problems that are HIGH PRIORITY *MUSTFIX* bugs for this
release and other high priority bugs that affect many thousands more
users than any 2.6.x problem.

What is my choice?  My choice is to keep my job.  And to fix as
many problems as possible for the Fedora release that affect the
most number of users who are actually using the OS as shipped, not
with unsupported add ons.

>But remember why Linus states he will call beta versions of the
>kernel with an even number suffixed with testx. He wants to get
>testers. Many testers. Testers which won't test the software as
>long as they expect too much trouble with testing.

So what?  That means I should drop what I'm doing, tell my manager
"I'm sorry I can't fix this MUSTFIX bug and do the other high
priority tasks I've been assigned, I have to work on 2.6.x kernel
issues.  Yes, I know we're not shipping a 2.6.x kernel, but there
are 3 people using 2.6.x who are pissed off.  Yes I know it makes
no sense for me to ignore high priority bugs that affect hundreds
of thousands or more users, and instead fix bugs that could really
wait for months before they get fixed, but I don't want to piss
off 2.6.x users."?

Um no.

>And then RedHat, which, in some sense, depends on this kernel
>development work, tells the community that RedHat sees that this DRI
>problem is a bug in RedHat's XFree rpm but RedHat does not care.
>Reading something like: "Build your own XFree rpms and backout that
>patch if you need to. We don't care ..."

This is a crock.  This "problem" was caused by a patch written by
Linus in the *first* place, which fixed a Mesa bug that caused
DRI to fail on a large number of Pentium 4 processors.  I don't
recall the extreme details of this problem but the number of users
that would be affected should Linus' patch not be applied would
be far greater than the number of people using 2.6.x test kernels
in any case, and it is FAR more important to fix serious bugs
that affect large number of users systems with SUPPORTED SETUPS
than to throw away the fix and make an unsupported experimental
setup work, REGARDLESS of what is the cause of the problem in the
unsupported setup.

>"Build your own XFree rpms and backout that patch if you need to.
>We don't care ..."

I really don't like your ignorant attitude.  This has nothing
to do with wether I care (or Red Hat for that matter).  I *DO* care,
but there are thousands of things I care about, and the amount of
time I have to DO SOMETHING about those THOUSAND things is LIMITED.
VERY LIMITED in fact.  I *MUST* prioritize the most critically
important work FIRST _PERIOD_.  And that means shipping an OS release
which works with the supplied kernel out of the box, and doesnt
break 3D acceleration on half of the Pentium 4 processors out there
in order to fix a problem with 2.6.x kernels.  This is all about
PRIORITIZATION, and nothing to do with not caring.

>Don't you think that this will prevent users from using 2.6.0-test?

No.  For 2 reasons.

1) Not everyone needs 3D acceleration in order to test a kernel.  I
   mean really, come on.

2) People who want to experiment with the kernel can also very easily
   rebuild the XFree86 rpm if they care that much.

3) The current RPM contains an updated patch which Linus sent to me
   which should fix this problem anyway.

Yes, that's right.  The current Fedora XFree86 4.3.0-42 has FIXED
this issue with information sent from Linus.  So your pointless
negative comments are 100% totally in vain anyway.  Why is this
FIXED in Fedora Core 1?  Specifically because I *DO* care.  I just
did not have ANY time to work on 2.6.x kernel related problems as
that complicates my workload significantly.  Once Linus pointed
out the flaw in his original patch which we were shipping, I was
able to fix the issue in less than 5 minutes, which was trivial
and definitely worth doing.

Without Linus's information I could have easily spent a day or more
on this depending on how long it would have taken me to set up a test
environment, reproduce the problem, and then debug this right down to
the assembly language level, since this problem was directly in hand
coded assembler in Mesa.  At the last few weeks of an OS release,
I have zero time, in fact I have to spend my own personal time
volunteering to fix things because I don't have time to accomplish
all of the tasks on my plate if I were to just work 40 hours then
stop.  While I wish I could work 24 hours a day and not sleep or
eat, and while that could allow me to perhaps fix 2.6.x kernel
bugs, I'm unfortunately human and mortal, and I must sleep, eat
and do other things.  That unfortunately calls for prioritization
of work to the most important things, and that isn't the 2.6.x
kernel where XFree86 is concerned.

>Using 2.6.0-test to do their usual work. And while doing this find
>some problems with it. Help to eliminate those problems.
>... and then run against a wall at RedHat.

The world is full of software problems.  Unfortunately neither
Red Hat, nor any other distribution or developer out there can
fix every bug or class of bug for every user out there within
a certain small period of time.  It's just not realisitic.  I fix
your 2.6.x kernel bug, I don't get other work done, then I have
200000 angry Pentium 4 users telling me DRI doesn't work all of
a sudden in an XFree86 update.  What do I tell them?  Well
fortunately I don't have to worry about that because of the fix
that is in my latest 4.3.0 now for this very problem, but the
same rules apply to other bug reports too.

If users are that interested in a bug getting fixed, and they
are clearly told the bug is dwarfed in priority by other high
priority things that MUST get done before developer time can
be assigned for their issue, there is one thing that the user
can do to increase the priority of their bug report, and that
is by doing exactly what Linus was so very kind to do, and which
I appreciate very much - supply a patch that fixes the bug.  In
Linus' case he didn't supply a patch, but instead he describe
exactly what the problem was, and the obvious fix.  Then it took
a few minutes to generate the patch and add it.

So really, you can vote on bug priorities by supplying patches
and doing developmental work yourself too.

>I don't want that you _support_ 2.6 within a given time to fix or
>something like that. But you could help development with not simply
>rejecting such requests.

I DID *NOT* *REJECT* the request.  I stated IMHO quite clearly
that it was totally unacceptable to fix this problem for 2.6.x
kernels by officially disabling the bug fix for P4 processors,
because that would be trading one semi problematic bug with 2.6.x
kernels for a bug that would be catastrophic for an extremely large
number of P4 users using our official 2.anything kernels.  That
is an unacceptable solution, and a regression period.  You just
don't throw away a working fix for something and regress back
to something older like that.

You fix BOTH problems.  However that takes TIME, and time doesn't
come for free.  It is a limited and finite resource, and being such,
prioritization is what decides when time will be allocated.  That
time would have come sometime AFTER the Fedora Core release, since
this problem was NOT a showstopper by any stretch of the imagination. 

If I sound a bit upset about this, I am, and for multiple reasons:

1) This problem *IS* fixed already and has been for over a week
   or more.  Someone tracking Fedora development and updating
   XFree86 would notice this.  I also clearly documented it in
   the changelog as always.

2) I'm tired of people thinking I have infinite time, and that their
   individual problem is more important than all 400 bugs I have
   open in bugzilla at any given time, and more important than other
   development and work that I have to do.

3) People are very thankless sometimes and if they don't get their
   way immediately they complain and are very negative.  They also
   rarely ever listen to reason and rationale.

> But you could help development with not simply rejecting such
> requests.

I did not reject ANYTHING other than the poor solution offered
above of disabling the patch, which is totally unacceptable.

I "DEFERRED" the problem until high priority MUST_FIX work was done
and other priorities that I have to accomplish.  Those high
priorities are much higher than this or any 2.6.x kernel related
bug, and I'll have higher priorities for at least a few more weeks
minimum, at which time I reprioritize all work on my plate again.

I'm offended by your implication that I don't help development
either.  It is my precice decision to properly prioritize the
work that I do which specifically DOES help development.



Comment 18 Mike A. Harris 2003-11-03 10:27:22 UTC
* Mon Oct 20 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris> 4.3.0-42
- This release is the long awaited answer to the meaning of life, the
universe
  and everything.
- Added XFree86-4.3.0-redhat-exec-shield-GNU-stack.patch to make the
complete
  XFree86 build including Mesa et al. exec-shield friendly (arjanv,
mharris)
- Updated to new XFree86-4.3.0-Mesa-SSE-fixes-from-MesaCVS-v2.patch which
  should fix compatibility problems between DRI and 2.6.x kernels
which were
  caused by the previous version of this patch.  Linus reported the
fix for
  this with details of the problem, and explanation of the solution,
which I
  extracted out of CVS (#107932,106566,107829)



Because I do care enough to fix things on a prioritized basis
in comparison with all other things, and since this issue had
it's priority raised dramatically when the fix for the problem
was provided, this bug has been fixed for 1.5 weeks.  There may
be various other duplicate bugs in bugzilla that are either
DEFERRED or open status still as I didn't have time to scan
for duplicates and close them all.

Closing bug as a duplicate of bug 107932, which contains the
details of the *real* problem and the real fix.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107932 ***

Comment 19 Mathias Fröhlich 2003-11-03 13:37:55 UTC
Read what you have written before. That sounds like you don't.
It was the way you repeated multiple times that "you
_will_not_support_ 2.6 <FULLSTOP>" which made me think that you/your
manager/RedHat are/is not interrested in fixing a 2.6 issue. And this
was what I could not believe for the given reasons.

If you care, it's ok.

   Greetings

      Mathias

Comment 20 Mike A. Harris 2003-11-03 14:06:11 UTC
No, you misunderstand.

"We wont be supporting 2.6.x in Fedora Core 1" and "we don't care at
all whatsoever about 2.6.x related bugs, please go away" are two
completely different meanings.

You implied the latter meaning, which is VERY incorrect.  The former
meaning is the correct one.  We definitely do not support 2.6.x in
Fedora Core 1.  Does this mean we don't care if 2.6.x works or not
at all?  No, not at all.

Does this mean that since it is not supported, 2.6.x issues will not
be given the highest possible priority?  Yes.

We just care _more_ about other issues that aren't 2.6.x kernel
related, but are very important to Fedora Core 1.  It's kindof
a moot point though since Fedora Core 1 is frozen now for final
release in a few days or so.

I just reread every comment I posted above over again, and I feel
that I correctly stated why this issue was not of high priority
several times, and that it would become higher priority once
Fedora Core 1 was released.  I don't think I miscommunicated
anywhere above that we don't care about 2.6.x, as that would be
very far from the truth in every way.  I suggest you re-read
each of my comments and try to see that I've said these things
all along in a fairly clear manner, even pointing out that the
issue could have it's priority raised if someone else volunteered
to find the exact problem and fix it, and include a patch.

Perhaps Linus was the only one who saw the true meaning?  ;o)



Comment 21 Mathias Fröhlich 2003-11-03 16:26:37 UTC
Ok, to me it sounds more like the second meaning. And yes I see that
it's also possible to read the first one. Let's stop this here.
So, please excuse if you felt offended.

     Greetings

        Mathias

Comment 22 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:45 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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