Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756796AbYHACFa (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752500AbYHACFW (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:05:22 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.200]:55783 "EHLO smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751258AbYHACFW (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:05:22 -0400 Message-ID: <48926FC3.3000706@keyaccess.nl> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:06:59 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Linus Torvalds , Suresh Siddha , Wim Van Sebroeck , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= , Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "arjan@linux.intel.com" , "roland@redhat.com" , "drepper@redhat.com" , "mikpe@it.uu.se" , "chrisw@sous-sol.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support References: <20080729232951.GB11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <488FAB2B.7050405@zytor.com> <20080730100326.GA9683@elte.hu> <20080730182539.GA17140@elte.hu> <20080730234102.GF11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20080731212915.GH2729@elte.hu> <20080731215808.GB8563@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20080731221435.GS23938@one.firstfloor.org> <20080731221924.GD8563@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20080731225004.GD22426@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080731225004.GD22426@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 969 Lines: 23 On 01-08-08 00:50, Ingo Molnar wrote: > there are a handful of old ISA-ish drivers that can crash randconfig > kernels in various ways. [indefinite lockups, crashes, stomped-over > hardware, non-working keyboard, etc.] > > I mapped most of them out via many months of trial-and-error - but it > would still be nice to have some separate config option to disable the > known ones. CONFIG_ALLOW_NON_GENERIC or something like that - which i > would unset in the randconfig runs. > > ( They are not CONFIG_BROKEN per se, because often it's hardware that > cannot be probed in any reliable way - the driver just assumes it's > there. ) If you have a list, I might be able to do something about some of them. Rene. -- 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/