Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception - lockdep related?] | Date | Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:47:33 +0200 |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> In any case it would make sense to turn that particular overlap > situation into a warning message and disable initrd decompress - and try > to boot with whatever is built-in the kernel.
If I explicitely tell my system to load a ramdisk, ignoring it is a bug.
I had a similar bug in PAM: One of these modules has a parameter to invert the check. I copied the tested configuration to an old debian system, which did not have this parameter, and it decided to ignore it (as if I were just joking while writing the config files of a security system). Therefore the system was open for everybody who was not supposed to use it.
I don't think ignoring an intrd will be as serious, but having a panic (and a timeout) is preferable to starting the wrong configuration.
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