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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:01:42 +0000
Subject: Re: appletalk/cops_probe BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s!
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel..." <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 02:00:03PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:40:22 +0800
> Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is probably a rather old bug, triggered while doing randconfig
> > boot tests in kvm:
> 
> I'm not sure testing old devices with no safe probe method is useful in
> this context ?

Yeah. I'll just blacklist this driver in my builds.

Thanks,
Fengguang