Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 19:25:52 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Subject : jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3
> > > Submitter : Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date : 2007-11-29 08:36
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/24/53
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475
> > > Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/132
>
> I think this is just the printk timestamp, no? And I think Ingo fixed
> it differently.

yes. Stefano said the b43 driver is OK. The full fix is queued up for
2.6.25. (it involved changing printk.c, etc., which didnt seem warranted
- especially since the use of sched_clock() by printk was already quite
incorrect.)

Ingo
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