Kernel PCI Scan Bug - No feedback 8 days after bug submittal (reposted with newlines)

[Kam Leo]

On 11/14/06, Charles Butterfield <charles.butterfield at nextcentury.com> wrote:
> I've had what seems like a fairly serious kernel bug related to PCI
> scanning open for over a week, with no hint that anybody has read it,
> triaged it, etc.  Some feedback would sure be nice.  I'm posting this
> on the email list, since I'm not really sure how else to get developers
> to notice the formal bug report.
>
> History:
>
> Nov 3 -- I reported a problem with Xorg not finding my video card on
> this email list(subject "FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage
> XL AGP - Dell PowerEdge 700").  Got a few posted responses (thanks!).
>
> Nov 5 -- Submitted bug report
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050
>
> Nov 6 -- After further debugging, I realized the problem is a kernel
> problem.  I changed the title and component to indicate such.
>
> Nov 14 -- So far, no response of any sort to the submitted bug #214050.
> Still classified as NEW, no indication that anyone is doing anything,
> such as notifying the upstream folks, etc. (I started to notify the
> upstream kernel folks myself, but stopped when I read the notice to not
> submit bug reports that came from an existing distro).
>
> Problem Summary:
>
> In the kernel used by FC6, there is a PCI scan/enumeration bug that
> manifests itself on some machines (like mine) as a mismatch between the
> contents of /proc/bus/pci/devices (e.g. 14 devices) and the nodes in
> /proc/bus/pci/xx/* (e.g. 15 devices).  Clearly this could cause numerous
> problems.  In my case it causes Xorg to fail to find my video card.
> YMMV
>
> This problem did not exist in the kernels used by FC5 (or at least did
> not manifest on my system).
>
> Regards
> -- Charlie B
>
> -----------------------------------
> Charles Butterfield, Chief Engineer
> Next Century Corporation
>

Try the fedora developers mailing list or post your bug on Xorg's bug
database. David Jones is about the only developer to post here on a
regular basis. Your chances of getting an Xorg developer to respond
from this list is very close to zero.