Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:41:35 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang |
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At Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:50:19 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hello, > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> | 870d6656126add8e383645732b03df2b7ccd4f94 is first bad commit > >> | commit 870d6656126add8e383645732b03df2b7ccd4f94 > >> | Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > >> | Date: Mon Aug 25 19:47:25 2008 +0900 > >> | > >> | block: implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT > >> > >> and meanwhile 2 other test-systems failed to boot as well - both have > >> CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y. > >> > >> So i guess this debug feature is working as expected. > > > > Ahh, yeah, sounds that way. > > > >> I guess we should mark CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y as really dangerous > >> to enable because contemporary distributions (i tried Fedora 9) fail > >> with it too? > > > > Tejun - do you know whether _any_ distro will boot with > > CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y? > > Hmmm... openSUSE 11.0 didn't have any problem with it, which I was a bit > pleasantly surprised about. I haven't tested management tools but the > base system worked just fine.
FYI, even on openSUSE 11.0, it gets a problem when you run mkinitrd on the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y. It's a problem of SUSE mkinitrd, though.
Takashi
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