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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark S <mstanovich15@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>,
	Jun Tian <jun.j.tian@intel.com>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 3.15 Regression Due to goldfish bus Commit
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:57:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140914215737.GA945@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPC5HRoW4pdMhBrJfQ40ZnJoon+zCRtAnZzzgEExw4ks=Trr2g@mail.gmail.com>

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

       reply	other threads:[~2014-09-14 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAPC5HRoW4pdMhBrJfQ40ZnJoon+zCRtAnZzzgEExw4ks=Trr2g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-14 21:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-09-14 23:12   ` 3.15 Regression Due to goldfish bus Commit One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-15  2:09     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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