Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763753AbZDHMOm (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:14:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933589AbZDHMFT (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:05:19 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:35002 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933581AbZDHMFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:05:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:04:40 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Diego Calleja Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linus Torvalds , Ray Lee , Hua Zhong , Theodore Tso , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8][RFC] IO latency/throughput fixes Message-ID: <20090408120440.GD768@elte.hu> References: <10f740e80904070051u4ec81842u931a405ab5bde985@mail.gmail.com> <20090407103611.GA5910@elte.hu> <200904071610.47462.diegocg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200904071610.47462.diegocg@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 23 * Diego Calleja wrote: > On Martes 07 Abril 2009 12:36:11 Ingo Molnar escribi?: > > Since besides myself i'm not aware of any other person on this > > planet actually _booting_ allyes/allmod Linux kernels, i guess this > > is not a big issue anyway :-) > > IIRC once I tried to boot an allyes kernel and it oopsed, because > (i think) the probing routines of some drivers have never been > tested in machines that do not have the corresponding hardware. So > I doubt someoneone is using it ;) Yes, i mapped those out gradually and disabled them. I've been test-booting such allyesconfig 32-bit and 64-bit kernels ever since then - for the past 2 years or so. Ingo -- 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/