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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [2 regressions] Current git cannot find root device on x86-64(HP nx6325), NFS broken
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:13:20 +0200
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On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Larry Finger wrote:
> >On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:47 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Current mainline (commit 22ae77bc7ac115b9d518d5cbc13d39317079b2b0) can't
> >> find the root device (it's handled by statically compiled-in sata_sil) and
> >> generally causes the "invalid module format" message to appear for all modules
> >> loaded from the initrd on my HP nx6325 (the distro is openSUSE 11.1).
> >>
> >> I don't know which commit might have made this happen, but the breakage was
> >> introduced during the last three days (commit
> >> 601cc11d054ae4b5e9b5babec3d8e4667a2cb9b5 is certainly good). I'll bisect
> >> tomorrow if there are no ideas.
> 
> > I bisected "invalid module format" woes to 9cb610d.
> 
> My system also fails to load modules from initrd unless 9cb610d is reverted.
> Something is wrong with the "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions
> section" patch.

This is fixed in the current -git, although I had to apply the patch from
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/16776/
to fix an Oops on boot.

Thanks,
Rafael