Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:50:19 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang |
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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.
> 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.
Yeap, if fedora didn't work, I think it should be hidden. Do we already have place to hide things like this?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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