Re: 2.6.5-ruby boot problem

[Rusty R. <ru...@ru...>]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:51, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Arne Georg Gleditsch =EDrta:
> > * Zoltan Boszormenyi
> >=20
> >>do your Num/Caps/Scroll Lock leds work? The keys themselves do
> >>but the led states aren't changing. (2.6.6-rc2-mm1-ruby)
> >=20
> >=20
> > Ah, no, they don't.  Not surprising, perhaps, since set_leds was
> > calling tasklet_schedule before the tasklet lists were assigned to
>=20
> I don't really get this. This is in linux-2.6.5/init/main.c :
>=20
> -------------from line 477 -------------
>          init_timers();
>          softirq_init();

But this needs spawn_ksoftirqd, which isn't called here.

Looks like the right fix is to remove the BUG_ON()s in cpu_callback,
or wrap them in "if (system_state =3D=3D SYSTEM_RUNNING)".

Rusty.
--=20
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