From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sachin Sant Subject: Re: Next May 13:[drivers/base/firmware*] Bug while booting on x86 Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:01:54 +0530 Message-ID: <4A0BACCA.5050103@in.ibm.com> References: <20090513164832.c8a0de7d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <4A0AC5E6.2010402@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e28smtp04.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.4]:40638 "EHLO e28smtp04.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751058AbZENFb6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 01:31:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A0AC5E6.2010402@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: LKML Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, David.Woodhouse@intel.com Sachin Sant wrote: > Call Trace: > [] ? firmware_data_write+0x1cb/0x211 > [] ? firmware_data_write+0x0/0x211 > [] ? write+0x113/0x14a Could be because of the following patch which last changed the code in question. firmware: speed up request_firmware() http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/17531/ I will try reverting this patch and check if that helps. thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------