Re: [BUG] Early Kernel Panic with 2.6.15-rc5

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 11:20 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:19:39PM +0530, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> > On 12/11/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:56:08AM +0530, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> > > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE=y
> > >
> > > Change this to "m" or "n" and the oops should go away.  It's a known
> > > problem that is being worked on, but will probably take a while to get
> > > done.
> > >
> > > Do you really have a pci express hotplug controller on this machine?
> > 
> > Yeh, the Oops went away when I did  CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE=n.
> > 
> > If its a known bug and will take a while to get done, maybe the
> > feature should not be included in 2.6.15 ( if it is not fixed until
> > then). Because a release kernel should theoretically never break. What
> > say?
> 
> As no distro will build their kernel with that option=y, and it is now
> documented in the archives that there's an error there, I don't want to
> really rip out all of those files :)
> 
> Hm, wonder if we can just force the option to be either N or M.  I don't
> see an easy way to do that in the config system, anyone else know how?

Um, isn't this what BROKEN is for?

Lee