success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk

[Michel Dänzer]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >> > You are lucky. For me it stops booting after the "freeing unused kernel
> >> > memory" line. The one from 2 days ago had 2 days uptime.
> >>
> >> Usually this means that some function/data is marked __init while it
> >must not.
> >> Quick verification: #undef __init / #define __init etc.
> >>
> >> Just wondering: wouldn't it be possible to write some tool to find such
> >bugs?
> >
> >Update: After a recompilation with today's updates, the latest bk kernel
> >boots again for me.
>
> That's not the first time I notice this strange behaviour. I meant, this
> happened to me randomly with various bk kernels for monthes. The problem
> usually disappeared by itself after either recompiling the entire kernel,
> or changing a few unrelated lines of code and then reompiling. That's
> weird, I really don't know what can be causing that.

Broken dependencies?


Michel


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