Brian, > They are separate issues. The ipr fix that is now upstream is for a > locking issue in ipr. The boot hang issue is a separate issue. I can > reproduce the boot hang on a system with my ipr patch. I've confirmed > it goes away when reverting Bart's patch but it makes no sense as of > yet as to why. OK. Thanks for the update. Let us know if there is something we can do to help. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering