[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:44:56 +0900, Tejun Heo said: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:07:37 PDT, Andrew Morton said: >>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2 > .6.22-rc4-mm1/ >>> This one died a horrid death at boot time - console log indicates it found > the >>> hard drive OK, found the 2 partitions on it. But when the initrd ran a >>> 'lvm vgscan', it didn't find the LVM2 space on /dev/sda2, so it panic'ed wh > en >>> it fell off the end of the initrd because the root= wasn't there. >>> >>> My first guess for blame: >>> >>> gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch >>> >>> as that's awfully similar to >>> gregkh-driver-sysfs-fix-i_ino-handling-in-sysfs.patch >>> that broke 'lvm vgscan' for me in the same way on 21-rc7-mm[12]. >>> >>> I'll hopefully get a chance to revert that one and test later today - a >>> quick >>> 'patch -p1 -R --dry-run' shows a number of conflicts that will need >>> hand-fixing >>> at the very least. >> Did rc3-mm1 work? Can you find out the first broken -mm? > > 21-rc5-mm2 worked, -rc6-mm* were busticated for other reasons on my laptop, > 21-rc7-mm[12] were broken, 21-mm1 through 21-rc3-mm1 worked, -rc4-mm1 broke, > and -rc4-mm2 works. I could bisect through -rc4-mm1 if it's deemed useful, > Andrew just pushed -mm2 before I had a chance.
Thanks. The offending patch was gregkh-driver-block-device Which is pulled from -mm2. Jiri Slaby reports that turning on SYSFS_DEPRECATED fixes the problem. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/