Re: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/26483/ broke my system boot

[Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>]

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:31 +0800, Balbir Singh wrote:
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> [2009-06-03 21:45:26]:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:39:44PM +0800, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > > After spending some time figuring out why my system failed to reboot,
> > > checking config options, kernel version, modules installed. I figured
> > > out that the patch in http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/26483/ broke
> > > the system boot on the latest mmotm. Reverting it helped my system
> > > call depmod and hence boot.
> > > 
> > > The patch is really unhelpful, since the changelog is completely
> > > empty. Sigh!
> > 
> > Yeah, sorry for not nak'ing it earlier. Has been busy.
> > Andrew removed it from -mm and I notified the author about the
> > problems with the patch (in private mail it seems - I just replied to what I had).
> 
> Cool! Thanks for the update. I'll get the latest mmotm and test as
> well.

The general idea of using the cross-depmod is good though :) We have had
a few people recently run their newer host depmod and wonder why their
older embedded device can't read the new binary index files.

Jon.