Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

Kay Sievers
2012-07-09T20:48:59Z

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

>> > That single patch doesn't apply cleanly to Linus'
>> > 8c84bf4166a4698296342841a549bbee03860ac0
>> >
>> > What else is necessary?
>> >
>> > Your tree seems to have a collection of random patches.
>> >
>> > It might be useful to clone Linus' tree and produce a
>> > branch with all the necessary printk patches in it so
>> > someone else could pull it.

I just worked on top of Greg's tree with the pending stuff for 3.5.

>> They should all now be in my driver-core-next branch that will show up
>> in the next linux-next release, so having a separate tree isn't
>> necessary.
>
> I don't think so.
>
> There are real defects in the existing code.
>
> These are patches that are necessary _now_.
> not for a -next 3.6 future.

Wrong conclusion. They are not in the 3.6 branch, but still go into -next:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/driver-core-linus

Kay