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
next prev 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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