linux-kernel - Re: My system stops during startup with curretn git tree of 2.6.25-rc2

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Message-Id: <20080217.183621.110686685.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:36:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jkosina@...e.cz
Cc:	zdenek.kabelac@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	panther@...abit.hu, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: My system stops during startup with curretn git tree of
 2.6.25-rc2

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:59 +0100 (CET)

> 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.

I just reverted and I'll push that to Linus.
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