Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:43:12 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot |
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:54:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> * Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:25:49AM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > > > kernel panic on boot when I try to run 2.6.25-rc1 and later, but 2.6.24-rc8 boots okay. > > > The result of git-bisect shows that > > > edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf is first bad commit. > > > > > > The git-bisect-result and the dmesg log when the kernel panic are > > > attached. Any help on this please? :) > > > > Are you using LVM? If so, please either upgrade your userspace/initrd > > stuff, or enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPCRECATED > > we _really_ must handle this differently and this _is_ a regression that > multiple people have spent hours on bisecting already ... > > So "enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPCRECATED" is _NOT_ the right answer, and this > has been pointed out to you in the past.
Isn't the device-mapper kernel code capable of detecting the older userspace version and loudly warning about it? That at least would prevent us from wasting lots of people's time like this.
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