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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:11:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100314181131.GC28359@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003132131470.3719@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:46:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > It also only affects those fairly rare lockdep users as well, and the only
> > affect is to throw a nasty warning message.  Isn't lockdep all about throwing
> > nasty warning messages?
> 
> Hmm. The report has that "BUG: " message in it (and in the subject line), 
> but you're right - it ends up being just a warning, not actually a real 
> BUG() (which is a machine killer).
> 
> So yeah - it's not as bad as I thought. Sorry.

It's a messy warning, I have patches that should fix the remaining ones
that I will send to you tomorrow.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-14 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-13 19:36 [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70 Larry Finger
2010-03-13 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-13 22:39   ` Jiri Kosina
2010-03-13 22:57     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-14  3:57       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-14  5:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-14  6:59           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-14 17:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-14 18:11           ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-14 18:30             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-14 18:38               ` Greg KH
2010-03-14 10:49         ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-14 18:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-14 18:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-14 19:08             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-15  0:48               ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-15  0:20             ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-15  0:29             ` [PATCH] init dynamic bin_attribute structures Wolfram Sang
2010-03-15 10:00               ` Jiri Kosina
2010-03-15 10:12                 ` [rtc-linux] " Wolfram Sang
2010-03-15 18:47                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-13 22:55   ` [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70 Larry Finger

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