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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: Debian bug 622997
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:51:55 -0600
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Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
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To: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:25:19PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
...
> Confirm that removing this module restores boot.
> 
> This is excellent detective work.  If I might ask, how did you trace
> the module loads and successful inits?

Dave,
Besides hacking in printk's, often "initcall_debug" kernel parameter is enough
narrow down which module is hanging or crashing the system.

hth,
grant