Re: [BUG] Early Kernel Panic with 2.6.15-rc5

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:36:57PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 11:20 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:19:39PM +0530, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> > > On 12/11/05, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:56:08AM +0530, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> > > > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE=y
> > > >
> > > > Change this to "m" or "n" and the oops should go away.  It's a known
> > > > problem that is being worked on, but will probably take a while to get
> > > > done.
> > > >
> > > > Do you really have a pci express hotplug controller on this machine?
> > > 
> > > Yeh, the Oops went away when I did  CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE=n.
> > > 
> > > If its a known bug and will take a while to get done, maybe the
> > > feature should not be included in 2.6.15 ( if it is not fixed until
> > > then). Because a release kernel should theoretically never break. What
> > > say?
> > 
> > As no distro will build their kernel with that option=y, and it is now
> > documented in the archives that there's an error there, I don't want to
> > really rip out all of those files :)
> > 
> > Hm, wonder if we can just force the option to be either N or M.  I don't
> > see an easy way to do that in the config system, anyone else know how?
> 
> Um, isn't this what BROKEN is for?

No, the code works just fine if built as a module.  Just building into
the kernel is when problems happen at init time.

thanks,

greg k-h
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