Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:06:59 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support |
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On 01-08-08 00:50, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there are a handful of old ISA-ish drivers that can crash randconfig > kernels in various ways. [indefinite lockups, crashes, stomped-over > hardware, non-working keyboard, etc.] > > I mapped most of them out via many months of trial-and-error - but it > would still be nice to have some separate config option to disable the > known ones. CONFIG_ALLOW_NON_GENERIC or something like that - which i > would unset in the randconfig runs. > > ( They are not CONFIG_BROKEN per se, because often it's hardware that > cannot be probed in any reliable way - the driver just assumes it's > there. )
If you have a list, I might be able to do something about some of them.
Rene.
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