On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 09:35:38AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 8/17/20 9:58 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On 8/17/20 8:56 AM, Keith Busch wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 03:50:11PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> Below v5.9-rc1 commit reliably breaks my boot on a Thinkpad e480 > >>> laptop. PCI nvme detection fails, and the kernel becomes not able > >>> anymore to find the rootfs / parse "root=". > >>> > >>> Bisecting v5.8=>v5.9-rc1 blames that commit. Reverting it *reliably* > >>> fixes the problem and makes me able to boot v5.9-rc1. > >> > >> The fix is staged in the nvme tree here: > >> > >> > >> http://git.infradead.org/nvme.git/commit/286155561ecd13b6c85a78eaf2880d3baea03b9e > > > > That would have been nice to have in -rc1... > > And now we're getting very close to shipping items for -rc2, and it's still > not in. Can we please get the nvme pull request out for -rc2? >
I keep wondering that myself. Completely breaking the boot like this is really not nice -- and for x86-64 laptops no less :-( The fix is really small and isolated. "Urgent pull requests", containing only a fix or two, were created *exactly* for this reson... Thanks, -- Ahmed S. Darwish Linutronix GmbH
