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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>,
	Henning Fehrmann <henning.fehrmann@aei.mpg.de>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: loosing IPMI-card by loading netconsole
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:16:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273875413.15067.1348.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEDCA89.7000707@kernel.org>

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 00:11 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 05/14/2010 07:37 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >> On 2.6.27.39, netconsole + IPMI works fine.  On 2.6.32.7, as soon as
> >> netconsole is loaded, IPMI stops working.  Unloading netconsole
> >> doesn't revive IPMI but detaching the driver from the controller does.
> >> In both cases, usual networking works fine.
> > 
> > Looks like a job for bisect.
> 
> Yeap, sure, it would be effective but I kind of want to leave
> bisection as the last resort.  Bisection is a somewhat painful process
> especially when the machine isn't right next to you and someone who
> has overall knowledge can often identify the problem much easier with
> appropriate debugging info.

Well nothing jumps to mind in the netpoll/netconsole code and I haven't
heard any similar reports. My guess is it's something obscure, so I
think the sooner you start bisecting... Even one or two tests will get
us a lot closer to figuring out what changed in the last 1.5 years.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-14 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-14 13:45 loosing IPMI-card by loading netconsole Henning Fehrmann
2010-05-14 14:51 ` Ronciak, John
2010-05-14 16:27   ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-14 16:39     ` Ronciak, John
2010-05-14 17:20     ` "Brandeburg, Jesse"
2010-05-14 22:18       ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-15  8:26       ` Carsten Aulbert
2010-05-15  9:10         ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-15  9:36           ` Carsten Aulbert
2010-05-14 17:37     ` Matt Mackall
2010-05-14 22:11       ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-14 22:16         ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2010-05-14 22:24           ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-18 13:12             ` Henning Fehrmann
2010-05-20 10:16               ` Henning Fehrmann
2010-05-20 15:01                 ` Allan, Bruce W

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