2002-02-12 20:15:55

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre9-xfs-shawn4 - kmem_cache_alloc oops

Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> Interesting, I have CONFIG_PNPBIOS on.
> What other filesystems do you have or is it just XFS only?
>

Known bug in -ac kernels. It's due to initialisation-order
disagreement between Alan and I. It looks like Alan has fixed
it in 2.4.18-pre9-ac2. For earlier -ac's, disable the pnpbios
driver in config.

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2002-02-12 20:21:45

by Shawn Starr

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Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre9-xfs-shawn4 - kmem_cache_alloc oops

I'll be merging to -pre9-ac2 today.

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 15:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Shawn Starr wrote:
> >
> > Interesting, I have CONFIG_PNPBIOS on.
> > What other filesystems do you have or is it just XFS only?
> >
>
> Known bug in -ac kernels. It's due to initialisation-order
> disagreement between Alan and I. It looks like Alan has fixed
> it in 2.4.18-pre9-ac2. For earlier -ac's, disable the pnpbios
> driver in config.
>
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