Re: 2.6.7-mm6

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 07:54 am, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:31:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-mm6/
> > - Added the DVD-RW/CD-RW packet writing patches.  These need more work.
> > - The USB update seems deadlocky.  I fixed one bug but it still causes my
> >   ia64 test box to lock up on boot.  If it goes bad, please revert
> >   usb-locking-fix.patch and then revert bk-usb.patch.  Retest and send a report
> >   to linux-kernel and linux-usb-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Uneventful on alpha, needed a make rpm compilefix Andi's got queued for
> the next merge on x86-64 and otherwise uneventful there.
> 
> OTOH, various things made sparc64 a living Hell that took about 9
> hours of solid compile/boot/crash drudgery to carry out bisection
> search on to find the offending patches.
> 
> First, I had to back out bk-input because it has a sysfsification patch
> that deadlocks sunzilog.c at boot.
>
 
Ok, I think I know what the problem is - it should be an oops rather than a
deadlock though - serial drivers are initialized before serio core when serio
bus structure is not registered with driver core yet. Could you please try
the patch below - I do not have hardware to test it:

===== drivers/Makefile 1.43 vs edited =====
--- 1.43/drivers/Makefile	2004-06-28 23:00:49 -05:00
+++ edited/drivers/Makefile	2004-07-06 12:46:54 -05:00
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 # char/ comes before serial/ etc so that the VT console is the boot-time
 # default.
 obj-y				+= char/
+# we also need input/serio early so seio bus is initialized by the time
+# serial drivers start registering their serio ports
+obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO)		+= input/serio/
 obj-y				+= serial/
 obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT)		+= parport/
 obj-y				+= base/ block/ misc/ net/ media/
@@ -37,7 +40,6 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_TC)		+= tc/
 obj-$(CONFIG_USB)		+= usb/
 obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET)	+= usb/gadget/
-obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO)		+= input/serio/
 obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT)		+= input/
 obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT)		+= input/gameport/
 obj-$(CONFIG_I2O)		+= message/
-
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