Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:19:41 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
       "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [patch] mark netconsole broken
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:06:44 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > This netconsole regression is still present in current mainline.  
> > Rafael, can you please add it to the list?
> > 
> > It's strange that I can hit it on three separate machines with e100 
> > and e1000 yet nobody else has reported it (afaik).  Is nobody using 
> > netconsole?

Sorry, I don't read 100% of any mailing list.

I use netconsole on my automated testing systems daily or at
least as often as there is a linus (-git) or -mm release.
It's still working for me, but I'm not using an e100[0] driver,
I'm using a Broadcom.


> i'd suggest the patch below, to mark it broken.
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> ---
>  drivers/net/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux/drivers/net/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig
> +++ linux/drivers/net/Kconfig
> @@ -3109,7 +3109,7 @@ config NET_FC
>  
>  config NETCONSOLE
>  	tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
>  	---help---
>  	If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
>  	See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.

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~Randy
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