Re: 2.5.1-pre5 not easy to boot with devfs

[Richard Gooch]

Alexander Viro writes:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Pierre Rousselet wrote:
> 
> > Here is the final (i hope) verdict of my devfs testbox :
> > 
> > 2.4.16 with devfsd-1.3.18/1.3.20 : OK
> > 2.4.17-pre1         "            : Broken
> > 2.5.1-pre1          "            : OK
> > 2.5.1-pre2 with or without v200  : Broken
> > 2.5.1-pre5          "            : Broken
> 
> IOW, merge of new devfs code (2.4.17-pre1 in -STABLE, 2.5.1-pre2 in -CURRENT).
> 
> We really need CONFIG_DEBUG_* forced if CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is set.  Otherwise
> we'll be getting tons of bug reports due to silent memory corruption.
> 
> Keith, is there a decent way to do that?  For 2.4.17 it would help a
> lot...

Is that worth the effort? Hopefully by 2.4.17-rc I'll have fixed the
bug, so it won't be an issue.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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