Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:57:37 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: 3.15 Regression Due to goldfish bus Commit |
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:38:55PM -0400, Mark S wrote: > Commit c1bc97f8f498a2bfab63ceef761fb0e88ef7c065 causes a gateway x86 laptop, > booting from a usb device, to hang before the kernel completes booting. The > offending commit was found using git bisect. Reverting the commit fixes the > problem on 3.16.2. > > The error resulting in the hang may not be a concern since the goldfish option > is not needed and should probably not be selected. I'm mentioning this problem > just in case it is unexpected behavior and it is worth fixing. Maybe the > goldfish option should not be selectable for a similar configuration as mine?
There should be some other type of run-time option to not have this code run if it is found to not be running on the goldfish virtual machine.
Anyone know how to do that?
thanks,
greg k-h
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