linux-kernel - Re: System "hangs" on kernels > v4.4-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2016 10:32:07 -0800
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: System "hangs" on kernels > v4.4-rc1 - mpt2sas problem?

On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 18:23 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Tony> /me goes to find how to tell Dracut to add the mpt3sas module
> > to
> > Tony> the initrd.
> > 
> > Great!
> 
> /etc/dracut.conf
> add_drivers+="mpt3sas"
> 
> and now my system boots.
> 
> Thanks again for the help.

We're not quite out of the woods yet: dracut should have seen this
automatically because of the module alias bindings.  Is your system
somehow unusual and you don't expect the initrd automatic module
selection to work?  If not, could you help us debug why it didn't?

Thanks,

James