linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: boot failure

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:20:42 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot failure

Hi Sachin,

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:22:59 +0530 Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I too am facing similar issue on both Power and x86.
> Culprit seems to be 2nd patch in the above list.
> 
> commit e1b79967e2b29839d16c12b534597a15d8630fc4
> audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotify
> 
> I wasn't able to remove only patch 2 because of dependencies
> on other patches. After i reverted patches 2 to 7 in the above
> list, i was able to boot the machine. Then i applied patch 2
> and the machine failed to boot.

Thanks for tracking this down.  Now we just need a solution :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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