Re: [bootup crash, -git] Re: patch pci-pcie-aspm-support.patchadded to gregkh-2.6 tree

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:55:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * gregkh@xxxxxxx <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >      Subject: PCI: PCIE ASPM support
> > 
> > to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is
> > 
> >      pci-pcie-aspm-support.patch
> 
> uhm. One week ago this patch was added to your PCI tree. It never 
> touched -mm AFAICS and today it was merged upstream (commit 
> 6c723d5bd89f03fc3ef627d50f89ade054d2ee3b):
> 
> Which is not necessarily a problem in itself, as long as you test it 
> through and are reasonably sure that it wont break systems en masse. But 
> this patch very evidently was not tested in any sufficient manner on its 
> primary platform (x86) because my randconfig testsystems (bog standard 
> x86 hw) started crashing during bootup almost immediately:

Ugh, this is causing just too many problems, I'm just going to revert
it.

Shaohua, care to look into this crash, fix up the config issues, and
resubmit it when it's working a bit better?

thanks,

greg k-h
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