Re: sungem hangs in atomic if netconsole enabled but no carrier

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> Turns out that if I remove the netconsole=... option to my kernel, all
> works fine and the system no longer hangs. Obviously not plugging in a
> network cable is pretty useless when netconsole is turned on, but I
> think it should not hang the system completely. So far I haven't been
> able to figure out where it actually hangs and don't even know how to do
> so -- I'm open for suggestions on how to find out why/where it hangs or
> even fixes.

Hrm... I've heard various reports about problems with netconsole... I've
never tried it myself so far though. One thing I remember to beware of
is if sungem does a printk while holding its lock...

Ben.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/