Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:19:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:

> Could it be an init-order problem, where something tries to use the
> block subsystem? Before it is initialized with:
>   block/genhd.c :: subsys_initcall(genhd_device_init);
> If that's the case, we have an old bug that nobody noticed with static 
> structures, which are zeroed that time, but definitely not properly 
> initialized. I'll try to build loop non-modular now, and see if that 
> makes the bug appear here.

Hi Kay,

my .config with which I reproduc this on 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 reliably can be 
obtained from http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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