From: Fabio Coatti <cova@ferrara.linux.it>
Organization: FerraraLUG
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:03:15 +0100
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Alle gioved? 14 febbraio 2008, Len Brown ha scritto:

> > >
> > > You're not supposed to have CONFIG_PM unset and CONFIG_ACPI set at the
> > > same time.  The oldconfig generation must have gone wrong at one point.
> >
> > Maybe it's not supposed to have this situation, but maybe you should tell
> > this to the kernel itself :)
> >
> > # zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep "PM|ACPI"
> > CONFIG_X86_64_ACPI_NUMA=y
> > # CONFIG_PM is not set
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> > # CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is not set
> >
> > # uname -rv
> > 2.6.23.12 #3 SMP Tue Feb 12 11:22:16 CET 2008
> >
> > And you can easily get this situation from menuconfig: just fire up make
> > menuconfig without any .config, go to power management options and turn
> > off "Power Management support". exit and look at .config:
> >
> > # CONFIG_PM is not set
> > CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE=y
> > CONFIG_HIBERNATION_SMP_POSSIBLE=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> >
> > Maybe if this is not supposed to be the right situation, some
> > dependencies are not respected... (tested on .16)
>
> I think this got fixed in 2.6.24 by the X86_64_ACPI_NUMA dependencies.
> (in 2.6.23 it used to select ACPI, in 2.6.24 it depends on ACPI).
>
> So I think in 2.6.24 you should not have this trouble.


That would be great, now I'm only to wait to find a solution for E200i SCSI 
controller: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9859

In fact, I'm able to compile 2.6.24 so it seems that the CONFIG_PM bug is 
solved; now I've only to find why 2.6.24 is not willing to boot on my 
boxes :)


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