Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang |
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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?
It does sound like perhaps the option should be hidden more, if it's really only reasonably enabled for some very specialized distro debuggers, not normal kernel people.
Linus
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