From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 19:23:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140405232342.GA6805@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140404231749.GA20437@kroah.com>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:17:49PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > I think you mean "dmesg -T", and unfortunately it seems Debian 6.0.9
> > (or older) doesn ship a new enough linux-util since I've only got
> > 2.17.2-9 install.
>
> No, 'dmesg -H' is the right thing, you just need a modern version of
> util-linux :)
I've been poking the Debian folks. Hopefully they'll be able to ship
a newer util-linux soon. Unfortunately, the previous package
maintainer had something like a thousand local patches, and it's not
clear which patches got pushed upstream, which have been resolved some
other way, which are now moot, and which might result in an actual
regression if Debian were to go to the latest version of util-linux.
Most Debian packages are better maintained; hopefully this issue will
be resolved soon. I believe the right way at this point is to declare
"patch bankruptcy", ala "inbox bankruptcy", and then fix up the bugs
as users report them. And I think the new maintainer believes that
too; he just has to convince a few other people of that.
Anyway, that's largely out of scope for LKML, except that many us
kernel developers who use Debian have been rather handicapped by this.
(I keep a set of binaries of the latest util-linux when I need modern
functionality.)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-05 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-02 18:42 [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline Steven Rostedt
2014-04-02 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 19:04 ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-02 19:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-02 19:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-04-02 19:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-02 20:05 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-04-02 20:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-02 22:18 ` Greg KH
2014-04-02 19:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-02 19:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-02 22:12 ` Mateusz Guzik
2014-04-02 22:30 ` David Daney
2014-04-02 22:37 ` Greg KH
2014-04-02 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 23:23 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-02 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-02 23:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 23:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-02 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 23:57 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-03 1:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-03 1:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-03 9:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-03 10:43 ` Joerg Roedel
2014-04-03 17:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-03 17:18 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-04 18:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-04 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-04 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 21:17 ` John Stoffel
2014-04-04 23:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-05 14:37 ` John Stoffel
2014-04-05 23:23 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-04-04 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-04 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-06 20:49 ` David Timothy Strauss
2014-05-06 9:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-04 19:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-04 20:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-04 22:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-04-04 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 19:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-03 11:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-03 11:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-15 7:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-03 10:34 ` Måns Rullgård
2014-04-03 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-06 17:19 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-05-06 9:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-02 23:47 ` Joe Perches
2014-04-02 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-03 11:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2014-04-03 15:17 ` Tim Bird
2014-04-03 18:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-06 9:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-07 4:54 ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-02 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-05 2:17 ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-05 13:15 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-05-06 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-19 8:06 ` Diego Viola
2014-05-19 8:11 ` Diego Viola
2014-05-19 14:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-05-20 1:26 ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-20 6:26 ` Diego Viola
2014-05-21 1:52 ` Rusty Russell
2014-04-03 0:49 ` Steven Rostedt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-23 15:15 Borislav Petkov
2014-04-23 20:44 ` Borislav Petkov
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