Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 -- hvsi console driver registration failure

2007-05-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > Better, we should be emitting loud warnigns which then disable themselves > and then succeeding the allocation so that people can proceed with their > kernel testing. > > When all the loud-warning sites have been fixed, we can take that code out > again.

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 -- hvsi console driver registration failure

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:38:58 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Trying to get 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 to boot on large PPC64 seems to be a > bit of a challenge. We have been seeing panics on boot from the > hvsi driver: > > Couldn't register hvsi console driver > > Tracking this

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 -- hvsi console driver registration failure

2007-05-04 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:38:58PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > Trying to get 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 to boot on large PPC64 seems to be a > bit of a challenge. We have been seeing panics on boot from the > hvsi driver: > > Couldn't register hvsi console driver > > Tracking this back, this see

[PATCH] Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 -- hvsi console driver registration failure

2007-05-04 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Trying to get 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 to boot on large PPC64 seems to be a bit of a challenge. We have been seeing panics on boot from the hvsi driver: Couldn't register hvsi console driver Tracking this back, this seems to come from hvsi driver trying to register itself via tty_register_driver(