Re: Speeding up autoconf on PCs

[Juan RP <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:12:34 +1000
Daniel Carosone <dan%geek.com.au@localhost> wrote:

> > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > This patch uses kthreads to absorb delays during autoconf, speeding up the
> > boot process quite a bit.
> 
> A recent kernel since this was committed panics reliably during
> bootup, while probing and configuring usb.  The panic is detected as a
> stack overrun (maybe enabled by DIAGNOSTIC?).

Isn't that check only available if the kernel is built with USE_FORT?

I've been using currrent with all debugging options turned on and never had
that error.

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