linux-kernel - Re: [2 regressions] Current git cannot find root device on x86-64(HP nx6325), NFS broken

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Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:58:02 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [2 regressions] Current git cannot find root device on x86-64(HP
 nx6325), NFS broken

>On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:47 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Current mainline (commit 22ae77bc7ac115b9d518d5cbc13d39317079b2b0) can't
>> find the root device (it's handled by statically compiled-in sata_sil) and
>> generally causes the "invalid module format" message to appear for all modules
>> loaded from the initrd on my HP nx6325 (the distro is openSUSE 11.1).
>>
>> I don't know which commit might have made this happen, but the breakage was
>> introduced during the last three days (commit
>> 601cc11d054ae4b5e9b5babec3d8e4667a2cb9b5 is certainly good). I'll bisect
>> tomorrow if there are no ideas.

> I bisected "invalid module format" woes to 9cb610d.

My system also fails to load modules from initrd unless 9cb610d is reverted.
Something is wrong with the "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions
section" patch.

Larry

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