I wrote:
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> I wrote:
>> When I power the PC down there are lots of messages scrolling by
>> which look somewhat like lockdep spew.  I can't reproduce this merely by
>> module unloading though.  So don't put this patch into production yet.
> 
> /...a few hundreds reboots later.../
> 
> No, it is not this patch.  It is something else.  And whatever it is, it 
> is already present in 2.6.25-rc3.
> 
> To reproduce it, I need to plug an SBP-2 device in and out, then shut 
> the machine down (e.g. shutdown -h now, whereas shutdown -r now does not 
> seem to trigger the bug).
...
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> I am now gradually removing debug options from the kernel to see which 
> debug facility is making the fuzz...

It is CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING (Lock debugging: prove locking correctness).

At the moment when the machine powers itself off.

What a waste of time.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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