Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756331AbcKWVCX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:02:23 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:34093 "EHLO mail-oi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753015AbcKWVCV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:02:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [2604:ba00:2:1:8bd:ab1c:3949:e242] In-Reply-To: <20161123205338.GA12050@angband.pl> References: <20161102004639.6870806d@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <98850889-29fd-a79f-348d-e047b2e12eec@manjaro.org> <20161123205338.GA12050@angband.pl> From: Robert LeBlanc Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:01:32 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot To: Adam Borowski Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Philip_M=C3=BCller?= , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , Nicholas Piggin , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.home.local id uANL2mDB005850 Content-Length: 1544 Lines: 41 Confirmed that this patch does resolve the boot issue with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y for me. Thank you for the patch and hopefully it will get included in -rc7. Thanks. ---------------- Robert LeBlanc PGP Fingerprint 79A2 9CA4 6CC4 45DD A904 C70E E654 3BB2 FA62 B9F1 On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Philip Müller wrote: >> > due to following commit it seems the 64bit architecture of linux 4.9-rc >> > is not able to boot at all, as it is unable to find its root device: > >> you have to apply following patch also: >> >> provide-asm-prototypes.h-for-x86.patch: >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9408985/raw/ >> >> @Adam, Nick: Was this patch not yet sent to Linus? > > The patch stewed in a kbuild-targetted thread since the morning after -rc1, > Nick has recently requested that it should go through x86 maintainers > instead. I've sent it there, lemme ping them, as the regression is severe > and 4.9-final is close. > > Apologies if I'm doing something wrong, I'm not a real kernel dev and merely > was the person who came here looking for a fix, saw Nick's instructions > and did the legwork implementing them. > > Last version (rewritten description) is at: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9439501/ > (needs s/oeter/peter/ for a typo in Peter Wu's address) > > > Meow! > -- > The bill declaring Jesus as the King of Poland fails to specify whether > the addition is at the top or end of the list of kings. What should the > historians do?