Re: pcibios_scanned needs to be set in ACPI? (was Re: 2.6.25-rc5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> What happend in .25-rc was that we now catch these kinds of problems
> (watching for duplicate kobjects to be registered and such.)  So this
> might have always been happening, but no warning was ever produced.

It's not the warning that worries me. It's the apparent oops (keyboard 
leds blinking?) at shutdown/poweroff!

> The reason we aren't shutting down is also due to the way kobjects now
> work.  If you don't clean up properly, they linger around and something
> on the shutdown path (I haven't figured that out yet) doesn't want to
> stop the machine.

.. and that's my issue! We're too late in the game to try to figure things 
out and leave things hanging. The patch broke something, it needs to be 
fixed or reverted. It's been going on too long.

I think it should have been reverted probably two weeks ago already. We 
can re-apply it early in the 2.6.26 series, and then try to fix it right. 

Since there is at least a patch worth trying now, I'll hold off reverting 
it and wait for Guennardi to test the patch, but the fact is, we shouldn't 
have a known-broken kernel for several weeks, when there is a known fix 
for it in reverting a single commit!

We have _way_ too many regressions as it is. Regressions are bad. Ones 
that have known causes and haven't been fixed in three weeks are 
unacceptable.

			Linus