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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:29:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Early-boot kernel panics from udev-165/extras/ata_id/ata_id.c
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:30PM -0500, John Stanley wrote:
> Hello,
> There is a problem in udev-165/extras/ata_id/ata_id.c resulting in
> random early boot kernel panics.  As it stands, udev-165 is not
> usable because the boot panics occur to frequently.  The systems are
> GNU/Linux i686 with linux-2.6.36.2 and linux-2.6.37, gcc-4.5.1, and
> glibc-2.12.1.

What is the kernel oops message?  That should be fixed first, no
userspace code should be able to crash the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h