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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1
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Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
>
> We've been seeing an early boot hang on IBM x-series (at least on an
>  x440) with -rc6-mm1.  Finally got hold of a box to go search for this
>  and it seems that backing out the three patches below fixes it.
> 
>   515  dmi-move-acpi-boot-quirk.patch
>   516  dmi-move-acpi-sleep-quirk.patch
>   517  dmi-remove-central-blacklist.patch

Thanks for taking the time to do that - it helps enormously.

The patches aren't terribly important - I'll drop them if nobody sees the
problem.  It might be an incorrect __init/__initdata/etc marking.  But that
wouldn't cause an "early" boot hang...