Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933825AbYCDUYw (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:24:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760173AbYCDUYo (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:24:44 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43909 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758227AbYCDUYn (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:24:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:24:36 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , "Zhang, Rui" , linux-kernel , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alexey Dobriyan , dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot Message-ID: <20080304202436.GA29456@suse.de> References: <1204500349.10256.171.camel@acpi-hp-zz.sh.intel.com> <20080303224259.GA27008@suse.de> <20080304135447.GD32383@elte.hu> <20080304104312.457ba3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080304193348.GC5534@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1741 Lines: 43 On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:04:50PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > > I have a patch queued up to change the wording of this config entry to > > not say 2006, as that's not true anymore, and it should hopefully fix > > some of the confusion here. > > Well, I think some of the confusion is simply from people who already > turned it off *before* (without problems), and now just do "make > oldconfig" or otherwise just keep it off, and it causes problems for them. > > Updating the help text won't do squat, because those people won't be > reading it - maybe they read it back when it was a new option (and it > worked for them), but not any more. Yeah, that makes sense :( > So I would almost suggest we simply force the option back on for now. > Then, in 2.6.26, we can make it a question again, and by that time, people > will have it as 'y' in their config files and will now have the option to > turn it off again. > > In other words, how about just this diff? Well, this will force the distros that are going to ship based on 2.6.25 (Fedora 9, openSUSE 11.0, etc.) to either enable EMBEDDED, or patch this chunk out, as they do want to run with that option enabled because they do have up-to-date userspace code. It's as if we should just change the config option name every kernel release to make sure that users keep things up to date. So Ingo's original proposal makes sense to me, more so than this patch. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/