linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2008-11-29-01-53 uploaded

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Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:11:24 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-11-29-01-53 uploaded

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:10:40 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:59:56 -0800
> akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2008-11-29-01-53 has been uploaded to
> > 
> >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > It contains the following patches against 2.6.28-rc6:
> > 
> Hi, in recent changes of linux-next.patch
> 
> ==
> static void __init param_sysfs_builtin(void)
> {
>         struct kernel_param *kp;
>         unsigned int name_len;
>         char modname[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
> 
>         for (kp = __start___param; kp < __stop___param; kp++) {
>                 char *dot;
> 
>                 if (kp->perm == 0)
>                         continue;
> 
>                 dot = strchr(kp->name, '.');
>                 BUG_ON(!dot); <======================================(*)
>                 name_len = dot - kp->name + 1;
>                 strlcpy(modname, kp->name, name_len);
>                 kernel_add_sysfs_param(modname, kp, name_len);
>         }
> 
> ==
> Above (*) is added.
> 
> I hit BUG_ON() at (*). That was because usbcore was not a module and module param
> kp->name was "nousb".... not including any dot.
> (If compled as module, the kernel works well.)
> 

Thanks, that'll be

commit 9b473de87209fa86eb421b23386693b461612f30
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date:   Wed Oct 22 10:00:22 2008 -0500

    param: Fix duplicate module prefixes

I assume.  Rusty's been on the schnapps again ;)
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