From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:05:04 -0400 Message-ID: <200803171405.04808.lenb@kernel.org> References: <20080311011434.ad8c8d7d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47DC26BC.7060502@tremplin-utc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:34791 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755970AbYCQTxi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:53:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47DC26BC.7060502@tremplin-utc.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?q?=C3=89ric_Piel?= Cc: Linus Torvalds , Tilman Schmidt , Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Renninger , Len Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Markus Gaugusch , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Arjan van de Ven On Saturday 15 March 2008, =C3=89ric Piel wrote: > 15/03/08 20:21, Linus Torvalds wrote/a =C3=A9crit: > >=20 > > I've reverted the whole thing. Or rather, since there were various = small=20 > > fixup commits over time, and a simple revert doesn't really work, I= ended=20 > > up just removing the option and the code that was conditional on it= - that=20 > > way, if we really want to fight this out some time (after 2.6.25 is= out)=20 > > or some vendor wants to use a known-broken option anyway, there's a= simple=20 > > and fairly clean commit to revert the revert. > >=20 > > It's commit 9a9e0d685553af76cb6ae2af93cca4913e7fcd47, see=20 > >=20 > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git= ;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3D9a9e0d685553af76cb6ae2af93cca4913e7fcd47 > >=20 > > for details if you aren't a git person. > It's a pity, I had just nearly finished a new approach. Instead of > relying on populate_rootfs() and the filesystem infrastructure, the n= ew > approach directly finds the file in the initramfs. With > unpack_to_rootfs(), it turned out to be rather straightforward. Attac= hed > is a half-tested version of the patch (it boots and works but I have= n't > compiled without the option yet). Just in case you would like to chan= ge > your mind ;-) I recommend that you make a new proposal for 2.6.26 that applies on top of Linus' top-of-tree and that we include lkml in hashing it out rather than just linux-acpi. thanks, -Len -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html