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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:06:59 +0200 From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>, Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>, "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "arjan@...ux.intel.com" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>, "roland@...hat.com" <roland@...hat.com>, "drepper@...hat.com" <drepper@...hat.com>, "mikpe@...uu.se" <mikpe@...uu.se>, "chrisw@...s-sol.org" <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support On 01-08-08 00:50, Ingo Molnar wrote: > there are a handful of old ISA-ish drivers that can crash randconfig > kernels in various ways. [indefinite lockups, crashes, stomped-over > hardware, non-working keyboard, etc.] > > I mapped most of them out via many months of trial-and-error - but it > would still be nice to have some separate config option to disable the > known ones. CONFIG_ALLOW_NON_GENERIC or something like that - which i > would unset in the randconfig runs. > > ( They are not CONFIG_BROKEN per se, because often it's hardware that > cannot be probed in any reliable way - the driver just assumes it's > there. ) If you have a list, I might be able to do something about some of them. Rene. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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