linux-kernel - Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008

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Message-ID: <20081127114859.GD29013@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:48:59 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008


* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:11 pm Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Rank 2: pci_create_slot (warning)
> > 	Reported 603 times (639 total reports)
> > 	BIOS provided duplicated slot names, the PCI layer blindly passes to sysfs
> > 	This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27.5, and first seen in
> > 2.6.27-rc7-git1. More info:
> > http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=pci_create_slot
> 
> IIRC we fixed this one post-2.6.27.  I didn't send the patches back 
> to -stable because they were a bit big, but if someone were 
> sufficiently motiviated I'm sure the backport wouldn't be that 
> hard...

having the commit IDs mentioned here would be nice, should anyone feel 
motivated.

	Ingo
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