I applied these 4 patches on top of todays git (one trivial conflict with include removal) and it does not work - hangs here: [ 65.322282] PCI: Enabling device: (0000:00:0d.0), cmd 5 [ 65.394252] scsi0 : pata_ali [ 65.432976] scsi1 : pata_ali [ 65.471610] ata1: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 0x1fe02010200 ctl 0x1fe02010218 bmdma 0x1fe02010220 irq 12 [ 65.588340] ata2: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 0x1fe02010210 ctl 0x1fe02010208 bmdma 0x1fe02010228 irq 12 [ 65.705941] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15-NAPI (Feb 27, 2007) [ 65.788850] tulip0: Old style EEPROM with no media selection information [ 65.877209] tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1 [ 65.978529] net eth0: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 49 at MMIO 0x1ff00000000, EEPROM not present, 00:03:ba:0c:06:cd, IRQ 9 [ 66.123140] tulip1: Old style EEPROM with no media selection information [ 66.211483] tulip1: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 7809 advertising 01e1 [ 66.312539] net eth1: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 49 at MMIO 0x1ff00002000, EEPROM not present, 00:03:ba:0c:06:ce, IRQ 10 [ 66.456108] ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG SP1213N, TL100-30, max UDMA/100 [ 66.538542] ata1.00: 234493056 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 [ 66.608850] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 66.683438] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 [ 66.766961] rtc0: no alarms, 114 bytes nvram [ 66.823471] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 [ 66.879054] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SP1213N TL10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 66.988422] TCP: cubic registered [ 67.032002] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 67.090463] Key type dns_resolver registered [ 67.146589] initlevel:7=late, 15 registered initcalls [ 67.214787] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234493056 512-byte logical blocks: (120 GB/111 GiB) [ 67.314623] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 67.377601] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 67.444782] registered taskstats version 1 [ 67.510339] console [netcon0] enabled [ 67.558375] netconsole: network logging started [ 67.617966] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2012-05-25 13:11:47 UTC (1337951507) [ 89.787327] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [swapper:1] [ 89.865086] Modules linked in: [ 89.905086] TSTATE: 0000004480001600 TPC: 0000000000471f10 TNPC: 0000000000471f14 Y: 00000000 Not tainted [ 90.034288] TPC: <async_synchronize_cookie_domain+0x170/0x240> [ 90.110926] g0: fffff8006e341001 g1: 0000000000000000 g2: 0000000000000000 g3: 0000000000000000 [ 90.225242] g4: fffff8006e054000 g5: 0000000000000000 g6: fffff8006e058000 g7: 0000000000846da0 [ 90.339642] o0: 0000000000000001 o1: fffff8006e058400 o2: 0000000000471ff0 o3: 0000000000000000 [ 90.454045] o4: 0000000000000000 o5: 000000000085b800 sp: fffff8006e05b371 ret_pc: 00000000004209d4 [ 90.573025] RPC: <tl0_irq14+0x14/0x20> [ 90.622249] l0: 0000000000001000 l1: 0000000080001607 l2: 0000000000471fec l3: 0000000000000400 [ 90.736565] l4: 0000000000000000 l5: 0000000000000000 l6: 0000000000000000 l7: 0000000000000008 [ 90.850969] i0: 0000000000000004 i1: 0000000000846d70 i2: 0000000000846d80 i3: 00000000004d3a4c [ 90.965369] i4: 00000000000005c3 i5: 000000000089a000 i6: fffff8006e05b451 i7: 0000000000472014 [ 91.079775] I7: <async_synchronize_full+0x14/0x40> [ 91.142711] Call Trace: [ 91.174721] [0000000000472014] async_synchronize_full+0x14/0x40 [ 91.253593] [0000000000601134] wait_for_device_probe+0x74/0xa0 [ 91.331420] [0000000000876e30] prepare_namespace+0x44/0x198 [ 91.405812] [00000000008769a0] kernel_init+0x100/0x114 [ 91.474394] [000000000042b0d0] kernel_thread+0x30/0x60 [ 91.543074] [00000000006f71c8] rest_init+0x10/0x68 -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html