Re: Problem with the default IOSCHED

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Jens,

> > by accident I selected the anticipatory IO scheduler as default in my
> > kernel config, but only the CFQ was built in. The anticipatory and
> > deadline were only available as modules. This caused an oops at boot.
> > After selecting CFQ as default schedule and a recompile and reboot
> > everything was fine again.
> 
> Hmm yes, that looks like a bug introduced with the io scheduler
> selection reorg. There's really no support in place for requesting this
> module out of initrd, I'd rather just make your selection illegal. Does
> this work for you?

the patch looks good and please get this out to Linus, because I just
made the same mistake on another machine.

Regards

Marcel


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