Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765846AbYCDSpH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:45:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761448AbYCDSo4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:44:56 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48075 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760462AbYCDSoy (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:44:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:43:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Greg KH , "Zhang, Rui" , linux-kernel , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linus Torvalds , Alexey Dobriyan , dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot Message-Id: <20080304104312.457ba3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080304135447.GD32383@elte.hu> References: <1204500349.10256.171.camel@acpi-hp-zz.sh.intel.com> <20080303224259.GA27008@suse.de> <20080304135447.GD32383@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 31 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:54:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:25:49AM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > > > kernel panic on boot when I try to run 2.6.25-rc1 and later, but 2.6.24-rc8 boots okay. > > > The result of git-bisect shows that > > > edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf is first bad commit. > > > > > > The git-bisect-result and the dmesg log when the kernel panic are > > > attached. Any help on this please? :) > > > > Are you using LVM? If so, please either upgrade your userspace/initrd > > stuff, or enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPCRECATED > > we _really_ must handle this differently and this _is_ a regression that > multiple people have spent hours on bisecting already ... > > So "enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPCRECATED" is _NOT_ the right answer, and this > has been pointed out to you in the past. Isn't the device-mapper kernel code capable of detecting the older userspace version and loudly warning about it? That at least would prevent us from wasting lots of people's time like this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/