Subject: Re: Next May 13:[drivers/base/firmware*] Bug while booting on x86

From: Sachin Sant <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:12:25 +0530

Sachin Sant wrote:
> Could be because of the following patch which last changed the
> code in question.
>
> firmware: speed up request_firmware()
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/17531/
>
> I will try reverting this patch and check if that helps.
The above mentioned patch seems to be the culprit. If i back out that
patch, the machine boots fine.

David let me know if i can provide any information to debug this
issue.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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