netdev - [patch] mark netconsole broken

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Message-ID: <20080304080644.GC2947@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:06:44 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: [patch] mark netconsole broken


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> This netconsole regression is still present in current mainline.  
> Rafael, can you please add it to the list?
> 
> It's strange that I can hit it on three separate machines with e100 
> and e1000 yet nobody else has reported it (afaik).  Is nobody using 
> netconsole?

i'd suggest the patch below, to mark it broken.

	Ingo

---
 drivers/net/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/drivers/net/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ linux/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -3109,7 +3109,7 @@ config NET_FC
 
 config NETCONSOLE
 	tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
 	---help---
 	If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
 	See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
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