Re: Regression - Re: 2.6.28-rc2: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1

[Patrick McHardy]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 14:31, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > Rerepeating, same userspace generats fine initramfs for 2.6.27 and the
> > > initramfs contents are the same except modules tree that is for different
> > > version.
> > >
> > > It happens on 2 of my computers, both have custom config (serial compiled
> > > in, not modular). The hang happens before ttyS driver initialization.
> > char-major-5-1 is /dev/console here.
> >
> > > Seems like a kernel regression to me.
> > It does, I changed some configuration options from =m to =y and
> > it started working again. Unfortunately I'm unable to find the
> > exact option that fixed it since I don't have the previous
> > configuration anymore and random attempts to trigger the problem
> > again failed.
>
> Maybe you just miss /dev/console in initramfs? That would trigger the
> kernel forked modprobe with that major/minor.
>
> Some device nodes must be created or included in initramfs before any
> action is taken.

No, the image is fine. As I said, changing the config fixed the problem.
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