linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] ring-buffer fix for 2.6.28

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811270856580.18691@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:58:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] ring-buffer fix for 2.6.28


On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > The following patch needs to go into 2.6.28. It protects against
> > a recursion race that can happen when the scheduler is traced.
> > 
> > The following patches are in:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> > 
> >     branch: devel
> > 
> > 
> > Lai Jiangshan (1):
> >       ring-buffer: prevent recursion
> > 
> > ----
> >  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Is there something about git that causes (or forces) the use of
> patch 0/1 followed by patch 1/1?  I find it terribly unwanted.
> 

It's my scripts that post. I should probably modify it so that if there is 
only one patch, that I append it to the prolog instead, and mail it out 
the old way. My scripts pull the patches out of my git tree and use quilt 
top post. I know git has a way to do that too, but I have not set that up.

-- Steve

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