linux-kernel - Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

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Message-ID: <20120711001145.GB10518@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:11:45 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
 > > > > That single patch doesn't apply cleanly to Linus'
 > > > > 8c84bf4166a4698296342841a549bbee03860ac0
 > > > > 
 > > > > What else is necessary?
 > > > > 
 > > > > Your tree seems to have a collection of random patches.
 > > > > 
 > > > > It might be useful to clone Linus' tree and produce a
 > > > > branch with all the necessary printk patches in it so
 > > > > someone else could pull it.
 > > > 
 > > > They should all now be in my driver-core-next branch that will show up
 > > > in the next linux-next release, so having a separate tree isn't
 > > > necessary.
 > > 
 > > I don't think so.
 > > 
 > > There are real defects in the existing code.
 > > 
 > > These are patches that are necessary _now_.
 > > not for a -next 3.6 future.
 > 
 > Oops, sorry, I ment to type, "driver-core-linus" above.

Can you get this to Linus asap please ? I just had an oops that scrolled
off the screen because the Code: line suffers the same problem.
Thankfully serial console caught most of it, but I had to hand-edit
a lot of crap just to make it readable again.

	Dave

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