Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755987AbZFEO7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:59:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753154AbZFEO7F (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:59:05 -0400 Received: from dallas.jonmasters.org ([72.29.103.172]:38343 "EHLO dallas.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752571AbZFEO7F (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:59:05 -0400 Subject: Re: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/26483/ broke my system boot From: Jon Masters To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Robert Berger , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20090604063144.GB7504@balbir.in.ibm.com> References: <20090603143944.GF29326@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20090603194526.GG3100@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090604063144.GB7504@balbir.in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:17:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1244186233.11597.106.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jonathan@jonmasters.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on dallas.jonmasters.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1371 Lines: 32 On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:31 +0800, Balbir Singh wrote: > * Sam Ravnborg [2009-06-03 21:45:26]: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:39:44PM +0800, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > After spending some time figuring out why my system failed to reboot, > > > checking config options, kernel version, modules installed. I figured > > > out that the patch in http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/26483/ broke > > > the system boot on the latest mmotm. Reverting it helped my system > > > call depmod and hence boot. > > > > > > The patch is really unhelpful, since the changelog is completely > > > empty. Sigh! > > > > Yeah, sorry for not nak'ing it earlier. Has been busy. > > Andrew removed it from -mm and I notified the author about the > > problems with the patch (in private mail it seems - I just replied to what I had). > > Cool! Thanks for the update. I'll get the latest mmotm and test as > well. The general idea of using the cross-depmod is good though :) We have had a few people recently run their newer host depmod and wonder why their older embedded device can't read the new binary index files. Jon. -- 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/