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

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:40:40 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	"Luck\, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: System "hangs" on kernels > v4.4-rc1 - mpt2sas problem?

>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> writes:

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

Depends how old dracut is. Older versions do not resolve module aliases.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering