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

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:08:50 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@...ah.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 22:48 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.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.

No worries Kay, as long as there's a tree with just printk
patches, it'll all work out.

> >> 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

That's the drivers-core-linus branch not the -next one.
Greg said -next.  Anyway, it's not a problem, Greg just
mistyped.  I do that too.  Sometimes too often.

cheers, Joe


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