Re: linux-next: Tree for Jun 18 (kmsg problems)

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Jun 18 2012 - 18:37:23 EST


Hi Greg,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:15:35 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Caused by commit e2ae715d66bf ("kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to
> > receive log buffer content") from the driver-core.current tree.
>
> I'm building my tree right now, and I can't seem to hit this.

You need CONFIG_PRINTK turned off ...

> > This was reported a few days ago. Why is it not fixed yet?
>
> It was reported Friday evening, on a holiday weekend for some of us, we
> are trying the best we can :)

Ah ha, another of those pesky holiday things :-)

> > Especially since it is in a branch that is supposedly "bug fixes"?
>
> It fixes up a reported problem, and we had 3 people test it and said it
> resolved the issue for them, no build problems reported.

My usual mantra is that if your patch is modifying code that clearly
depends on a CONFIG option, you must test with that option both on and
off. I see build problems in linux-next all the time where this has not
been done. :-(

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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