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

David Miller
2008-02-18T02:35:52Z

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:59 +0100 (CET)

> 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.

I just reverted and I'll push that to Linus.