On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:12:19AM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:57:37 -0700 > Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:38:55PM -0400, Mark S wrote: > > > Commit c1bc97f8f498a2bfab63ceef761fb0e88ef7c065 causes a gateway x86 > > > laptop, > > > booting from a usb device, to hang before the kernel completes booting. > > > The > > > offending commit was found using git bisect. Reverting the commit fixes > > > the > > > problem on 3.16.2. > > > > > > The error resulting in the hang may not be a concern since the goldfish > > > option > > > is not needed and should probably not be selected. I'm mentioning this > > > problem > > > just in case it is unexpected behavior and it is worth fixing. Maybe the > > > goldfish option should not be selectable for a similar configuration as > > > mine? > > > > There should be some other type of run-time option to not have this code > > run if it is found to not be running on the goldfish virtual machine. > > > > Anyone know how to do that? > > I asked last time it was reported and the time before (it comes up every > year or two). There is no sane documented way to detect the Goldfish > virtual machine as distinct from anything else. > > We could hide Goldfish under expert ?
No, that would be a mess. Just put a big warning on the option, no one should be enabling it if they don't want it, the config option text should say this. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/
