Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang

Tejun Heo
2008-10-11T00:52:52Z

Hello,

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> | 870d6656126add8e383645732b03df2b7ccd4f94 is first bad commit
>> | commit 870d6656126add8e383645732b03df2b7ccd4f94
>> | Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>> | Date: Mon Aug 25 19:47:25 2008 +0900
>> |
>> | block: implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
>>
>> and meanwhile 2 other test-systems failed to boot as well - both have
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y.
>>
>> So i guess this debug feature is working as expected.
>
> Ahh, yeah, sounds that way.
>
>> I guess we should mark CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y as really dangerous
>> to enable because contemporary distributions (i tried Fedora 9) fail
>> with it too?
>
> Tejun - do you know whether _any_ distro will boot with
> CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y?

Hmmm... openSUSE 11.0 didn't have any problem with it, which I was a bit
pleasantly surprised about. I haven't tested management tools but the
base system worked just fine.

> It does sound like perhaps the option should be hidden more, if it's
> really only reasonably enabled for some very specialized distro debuggers,
> not normal kernel people.

Yeap, if fedora didn't work, I think it should be hidden. Do we already
have place to hide things like this?

Thanks.

--
tejun