Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 USB related boot hang

[Helge Hafting]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote:
>
>   
> > > Anyway, based on information you have provided in your later messages, 
> > > it seems that it is probably not necessairly related neither to USB 
> > > nor HID, as you are getting hangs at different stages of boot, 
> > > depending on your local configuration/kernel version used. Is vanilla 
> > > 2.6.21-rc6 ok? If so, would you have time to bisect the offending 
> > > patch?
> > >       
> > I don't know about 2.6.21-rc6, but 2.6.21-rc7 (from fresh sources) is 
> > good.  It boots up without hanging, and my USB devices works too. Should 
> > I test rc7-mm1 then?
> >     
>
> That would also be useful.
>
> But really identifying offending patch using bisection would help most. 
>   
If there is an offending patch at all - my rc6-mm1 kernel must
have been built from messed-up sources - we saw that when your
patch did not apply.  So my source had errors - right in the USB part.

I haven't tested a correct rc6-mm1, so I don't even know if it
has problems.  I can make such a kernel of course. . .
> And it should be pretty easy and not too much time consuming for you, as 
> the bug triggers immediately upon boot in your case.
>   
Indeed - it is easy to spot. :-)

Helge Hafting
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