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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: kurt.hackel@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] OCFS2: __init / __exit problem
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:49:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060107214947.GW3774@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060107213821.GD3313@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:38:21PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:07:02PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > It's a real problem that due to the fact that these errors have become 
> > runtime errors on i386 in kernel 2.6, we do no longer have a big testing 
> > coverage for them.  :-(
> Indeed. Those function declarations have been in there for a while,
> without any issue until now. Thanks for the patch Adrian.

The runtime error on architectures like i386 occurs in the error path of 
ocfs2_init().

This is the common problem that such error paths are only used once 
every dozen years and therefore get no real testing coverage...

> 	--Mark

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-07 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-07 13:20 OCFS2: __init / __exit problem Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-01-07 19:07 ` [2.6 patch] " Adrian Bunk
2006-01-07 21:38   ` Mark Fasheh
2006-01-07 21:49     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-01-07 21:51       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-08  0:23         ` Randy.Dunlap

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