Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 15:22:48 EST




On Thu, 24 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2007 10:12:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > BUG: at include/linux/slub_def.h:88 kmalloc_index()
> >
> > I'm going to change that "BUG:" to "WARNING:".
>
> I think we should remove these kmalloc(0, ...) warnings prior to
> the 2.6.22 release, put them back afterwards.

Orthogonal issue, but yes, I agree. I'll do that too, but let's keep it
for now.

> I'm not sure how we could do this, apart from patching and unpatching a
> config file each time.

Doing it in the Makefile would make more sense, since I have to edit that
file anyway to change -rc5 to -rc6.

Linus
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