Confirmed that this patch does resolve the boot issue with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y for me. Thank you for the patch and hopefully it will get included in -rc7.
Thanks. ---------------- Robert LeBlanc PGP Fingerprint 79A2 9CA4 6CC4 45DD A904 C70E E654 3BB2 FA62 B9F1 On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Philip Müller wrote: >> > due to following commit it seems the 64bit architecture of linux 4.9-rc >> > is not able to boot at all, as it is unable to find its root device: > >> you have to apply following patch also: >> >> provide-asm-prototypes.h-for-x86.patch: >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9408985/raw/ >> >> @Adam, Nick: Was this patch not yet sent to Linus? > > The patch stewed in a kbuild-targetted thread since the morning after -rc1, > Nick has recently requested that it should go through x86 maintainers > instead. I've sent it there, lemme ping them, as the regression is severe > and 4.9-final is close. > > Apologies if I'm doing something wrong, I'm not a real kernel dev and merely > was the person who came here looking for a fix, saw Nick's instructions > and did the legwork implementing them. > > Last version (rewritten description) is at: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9439501/ > (needs s/oeter/peter/ for a typo in Peter Wu's address) > > > Meow! > -- > The bill declaring Jesus as the King of Poland fails to specify whether > the addition is at the top or end of the list of kings. What should the > historians do?
