linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] parport: register driver later

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Date:	Tue, 5 Apr 2016 09:47:48 -0400
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] parport: register driver later

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 06:44:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > A bit better commit message here would have caused me to notice it.
> > Something like "Revert a broken patch because it crashes all of our
> > machines without it!!!" would be a hint it needed to go in :)
> 
> Didn't my revert of e7223f1860 fix this?

Yes.

> > I think the lack of parport hardware around seems to have caused a total
> > lack of testing this code path while it was in linux-next and in my
> > local testing, sorry about that, it should have been caught a lot
> > earlier.
> 
> Well, the original 0day kernel test robot report was from the
> linux-next days, back in February. I reverted the commit that the
> kernel test robot indicated was the point where the actual trouble
> started two weeks ago (commit 1701f680407c).
> 
> I was hoping that would be it. Have there been reports since that I
> haven't seen?

Not that I have seen.  But I missed the 0day report so I might not be
the best judge here...

thanks,

greg k-h