Re: intel-agp and yenta-socket issues (was Re: 2.6.14-rc5-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 00:40:01 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:48:38 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc5/2.6.14-rc5-mm1/
>
> > +agp-updates-owner-field-of-struct-pci_driver.patch
>
> intel-agp would hang during modprobe until I backed this one out.

A sysrq trace would be nice.

> Am still seeing a hang trying to modprobe yenta-socket during early boot. I'm
> not seeing any obvious candidates to back out here - the -rc4-mm1 version is
> identical, and -rc4-mm1 boots OK for me.
>
> I wasn't seeing any output from alt-sysrq-T, but it occurs to me that maybe
> the console level wasn't set nicely yet - this is happening pretty early in
> rc.sysinit.

Can you wait until the system is fully booted, get sysrq working then
modprobe the module by hand?

> Is there an undocumented requirement for a newer modprobe?

I hope not. I'm using some ancient thing - it works OK.
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