linux-kernel - Re: [bisected] Driver core fixes for 3.6-rc3 regression

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Message-ID: <20120818163401.GA2013@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:34:01 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [bisected] Driver core fixes for 3.6-rc3 regression

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 08:09:34AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2012.08.17 at 10:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Driver core fixes for 3.6-rc3
> > 
> > Here are two tiny patches, one fixing a dynamic debug problem that the printk
> > rework turned up, and the other one fixing an extcon problem that people
> > reported.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Axel Lin (1):
> >       extcon: extcon_gpio: Replace gpio_request_one by devm_gpio_request_one
> > 
> > Jim Cromie (1):
> >       drivers-core: make structured logging play nice with dynamic-debug
> 
> The commit af7f2158f above causes hundreds of "Failed to force enable
> HPET" messages to appear during boot on my system.
> Please also note the strange "^A0" character sequence that is also
> introduced by the same commit.

Ugh, I see the same thing here, debugging must be accidentally enabled
with this patch, and the ^A0 stuff is just a mess.  Sorry, I didn't
notice this in my testing, my fault.

Reverting this resolves the issue for me.

Jim, any thoughts on how to fix this?  Should I just revert this patch
for now?

greg k-h
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