On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:42:10 -0700
Alex Chiang [off-list ref] wrote:

* Jesse Barnes [off-list ref]:

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On Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:11 pm Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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Rank 2: pci_create_slot (warning)
	Reported 603 times (639 total reports)
	BIOS provided duplicated slot names, the PCI layer
blindly passes to sysfs This warning was last seen in version
2.6.27.5, and first seen in 2.6.27-rc7-git1. More info:
http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=pci_create_slot

IIRC we fixed this one post-2.6.27.  I didn't send the patches back
to -stable because they were a bit big, but if someone were
sufficiently motiviated I'm sure the backport wouldn't be that
hard...

I can do this backport. A few questions though...

We're seeing a proliferation of this one presumably because
Fedora10 uses 2.6.27.5 as a starting point? If I just backport
the fixes against Greg's latest tree, do I have to do anything
special to make sure they get into the Fedora kernel?

Fedora tends to follow -stable quite closely so that ought to be enough

Also, does kerneloops capture any of the machine information,
like DMI output, etc. or does it just get the oops? It would be
nice to see which machines out there have the broken BIOS that
causes this oops.

right now we do this for oopses, but not for warnings ;(
I'll make a patch to add this; it's generally useful.


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