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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802171301430.7699@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:59 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, panther@...abit.hu,
	Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@...abit.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: My system stops during startup with curretn git tree of 2.6.25-rc2

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:

> It looks like there is something weird as my systems stops when the swap 
> is mounted. I've played bisection game and this is the commit which 
> makes the system unusable:
> # bad: [45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034] [RTNETLINK]: Send a
> single notification on device state changes.
> git-bisect bad 45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034
> I've tried to reverse this commit - and it has compiled & worked.

This commit is completely broken (it, for example, breaks locking around 
dev->link_mode), as has been already mentioned by Rafael at 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/15/542

Dave, do you have a proper fix queued? Otherwise I would propose just to 
revert it completely from Linus' tree for now.

-- 
Jiri Kosina

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