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Subject: Re: problem booting 5.10
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On 09/12/2020 15:44, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, John Garry wrote:
> 
>> On 08/12/2020 22:51, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>> Julia,
>>>
>>>> This solves the problem.  Starting from 5.10-rc7 and doing this revert, I
>>>> get a kernel that boots.
>> Hi Julia,
>>
>> Can you also please test Ming's patchset here (without the megaraid sas
>> revert) when you get a chance:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20201203012638.543321-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/
> 5.10-rc7 plus these three commits boots fine.
> 

Hi Julia,

Ok, Thanks for the confirmation. A sort of relief.

@Kashyap, It would be good if we could recreate this, just in case.

Cheers,
John