linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: initialize module dynamic debug later

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Date:	Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:05:23 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: initialize module dynamic debug later

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> We should initialize the module dynamic debug datastructures
> only after determining that the module is not loaded yet. This
> fixes a bug that introduced in 2.6.35-rc2, where when a trying
> to load a module twice, we also load it's dynamic printing data
> twice which causes all sorts of nasty issues. Also handle
> the dynamic debug cleanup later on failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@...newdream.net>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> (removed a #ifdef)

Is this missing a

   From: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@...newdream.net>

author attribution by any chance? The sign-offs imply so.

                   Linus
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