Re: My system stops during startup with curretn git tree of 2.6.25-rc2

Jiri Kosina
2008-02-17T12:05:28Z

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:

> It looks like there is something weird as my systems stops when the swap
> is mounted. I've played bisection game and this is the commit which
> makes the system unusable:
> # bad: [45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034] [RTNETLINK]: Send a
> single notification on device state changes.
> git-bisect bad 45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034
> I've tried to reverse this commit - and it has compiled & worked.

This commit is completely broken (it, for example, breaks locking around
dev->link_mode), as has been already mentioned by Rafael at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/15/542

Dave, do you have a proper fix queued? Otherwise I would propose just to
revert it completely from Linus' tree for now.

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Jiri Kosina