From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264246AbUGFRv1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:51:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264255AbUGFRv1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:51:27 -0400 Received: from smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.168.187]:44727 "HELO smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264246AbUGFRvV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:51:21 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm6 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:51:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton References: <20040705023120.34f7772b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040706125438.GS21066@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706125438.GS21066@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407061251.18702.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 06 July 2004 07:54 am, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:31:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-mm6/ > > - Added the DVD-RW/CD-RW packet writing patches. These need more work. > > - The USB update seems deadlocky. I fixed one bug but it still causes my > > ia64 test box to lock up on boot. If it goes bad, please revert > > usb-locking-fix.patch and then revert bk-usb.patch. Retest and send a report > > to linux-kernel and linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. > > Uneventful on alpha, needed a make rpm compilefix Andi's got queued for > the next merge on x86-64 and otherwise uneventful there. > > OTOH, various things made sparc64 a living Hell that took about 9 > hours of solid compile/boot/crash drudgery to carry out bisection > search on to find the offending patches. > > First, I had to back out bk-input because it has a sysfsification patch > that deadlocks sunzilog.c at boot. > Ok, I think I know what the problem is - it should be an oops rather than a deadlock though - serial drivers are initialized before serio core when serio bus structure is not registered with driver core yet. Could you please try the patch below - I do not have hardware to test it: ===== drivers/Makefile 1.43 vs edited ===== --- 1.43/drivers/Makefile 2004-06-28 23:00:49 -05:00 +++ edited/drivers/Makefile 2004-07-06 12:46:54 -05:00 @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ # char/ comes before serial/ etc so that the VT console is the boot-time # default. obj-y += char/ +# we also need input/serio early so seio bus is initialized by the time +# serial drivers start registering their serio ports +obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO) += input/serio/ obj-y += serial/ obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT) += parport/ obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ net/ media/ @@ -37,7 +40,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TC) += tc/ obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += usb/ obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET) += usb/gadget/ -obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO) += input/serio/ obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT) += input/ obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT) += input/gameport/ obj-$(CONFIG_I2O) += message/