From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752907AbaINV5j (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:57:39 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44000 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752832AbaINV5i (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:57:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:57:37 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Mark S Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Octavian Purdila , Jun Tian , Alan Cox Subject: Re: 3.15 Regression Due to goldfish bus Commit Message-ID: <20140914215737.GA945@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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