From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759559Ab0CNSR2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:17:28 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48692 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758696Ab0CNSRY (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:17:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:11:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Jiri Kosina , Larry Finger , WANG Cong , Tejun Heo , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70 Message-ID: <20100314181131.GC28359@suse.de> References: <4b9be956.x5+yAHXGDfXer810%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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