Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 USB related boot hang

Helge Hafting
2007-04-25T12:53:57Z

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote:
>
>
>>> Anyway, based on information you have provided in your later messages,
>>> it seems that it is probably not necessairly related neither to USB
>>> nor HID, as you are getting hangs at different stages of boot,
>>> depending on your local configuration/kernel version used. Is vanilla
>>> 2.6.21-rc6 ok? If so, would you have time to bisect the offending
>>> patch?
>>>
>> I don't know about 2.6.21-rc6, but 2.6.21-rc7 (from fresh sources) is
>> good. It boots up without hanging, and my USB devices works too. Should
>> I test rc7-mm1 then?
>>
>
> That would also be useful.
>
> But really identifying offending patch using bisection would help most.
>
If there is an offending patch at all - my rc6-mm1 kernel must
have been built from messed-up sources - we saw that when your
patch did not apply. So my source had errors - right in the USB part.

I haven't tested a correct rc6-mm1, so I don't even know if it
has problems. I can make such a kernel of course. . .
> And it should be pretty easy and not too much time consuming for you, as
> the bug triggers immediately upon boot in your case.
>
Indeed - it is easy to spot. :-)

Helge Hafting