linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] free_irq(): Actually handle DEBUG

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:29:36 +0200
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] free_irq(): Actually handle DEBUG_SHIRQ

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 12:17 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Code used for DEBUG_SHIRQ in free_irq() is unreachable -- the for()
> loop within never terminates otherwise than by return.  This is an
> obvious fix.

Yeah... except that it enables new debugging code which (due to my
stupidity) wasn't enabled before. A fix for this is already in the -mm
tree, to be merged (along with a corresponding lockdep-related fix)
after 2.6.23 release.

-- 
dwmw2

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