Re: PROBLEM: kernel hang in ohci init

["Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>]

On 9/16/07, Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
>
> On 7/15/07, Timo Lindemann <tlindemann@arcor.de> wrote:
> > To sum this up:
> >
> > the userspace 2.6.20.6 (the "good" kernel) and 2.6.22 (the "bad" kernel)
> > were compiled in is exactly the same setup. I recompiled "good" to check
> > for that, earlier, but "good" also works then.
> >
> > "good" does not exhibit the printks I placed in the section (the same
> > ones I did for "bad"), making it plausible that the section is not
> > executed at all.
> >
> > dmesg is not captured to disk, netconsole and serial console also do not
> > work (they both did in the "good" kernel). Also, my keyboard does not
> > work with "bad" during that phase -- Magic SysRq is also not working then.
> >
> > I can try to hook up the laptop to an external monitor to capture some
> > more dmesg, and just shoot a photo, but I am right now trying to work
> > with git, as Satyam suggested.
>
> Any updates on this for us? Or did the kernel start booting magically again
> ca. 2.6.23-rc6? ;-)

Should again add that best would still be to simply git-bisect Linus' (mainline)
kernel tree between 2.6.20 (not 2.6.20.6) and 2.6.22 and just find the commit
after which your box stops booting ...


> Anyway, it appears the bug got introduced sometime between 2.6.20 and
> 2.6.22 so probably bugzilla becomes a better place to track this one. Could
> you open up a bug report (similar to your original post) there?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Satyam
>