Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The attached patch, against 2.4.0-test4-pre6, simply prints a warning
> > and forces atomic allocation, instead of forcing an oops. Other drivers
> > and areas of the kernel might be affected by the BUG() call in
> > mm/slab.c, too.
> But Jeff, this kills our best chance of ever locating the bug! We need
> to get one decent ksymoops trace to nail this.
[...]
> Why not leave it in and fix the root cause?
The message was specifically -not- sent to Linus, for a reason. :)
At the moment, I prefer booting my laptop to the current oops-on-boot
behavior...
Jeff
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