Re: system gets stuck in a lock during boot

[Justin P. Mattock]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>    
> > Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >      
> > > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:45 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >        
> > > > >            
> > > > yep like I said I owe you guys an apology, for
> > > > my mistake(thanks for taking the time).
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > Well, thank you for reporting it. If nobody reports any problems, we
> > > just assume everything is OK, and as people curse us out and look for
> > > alternatives, we will be sipping our mai-tais in ignorant bliss.
> > >
> > > -- Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >        
> > agree, my main concern when reporting is to make sure that it's a real
> > issue, and not a mistake like this one.
> >      
>
> Well, it can be really hard to filter out whether a problem is somehow
> self-inflicted or caused by the kernel proper - thus we generally prefer
> over-reporting over under-reporting.
>
> Even if it's self-inflicted it's useful on a meta level: if many people
> report it then we might end up adding more safety guards to disable a
> particular common pattern of shoot-foot-self incidents.
>
> 	Ingo
>
>    
CONFIG_INGO=y

Thanks man, yeah I agree the more over reporting the better.
but in this case  I did shoot myself in the foot(not by choice though).
In any case I really appreciate all of you guys
taking the time to look at this. I will try and be more careful the
next time in reporting.

Justin P. Mattock

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