linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.12-rc5

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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:42:58 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.12-rc5

On 3/29/21 11:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 7:07 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>>
>> This is not really a new problem. I enabled devicetree unit tests
>> in the openrisc kernel and was rewarded with a crash.
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@roeck-us.net/
>> has all the glorious details.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> I'm not sure I love that patch.
> 

Me not either. I did point out that it doesn't fix the problem, only
the impact. Fixing the dt unittest code would have been easy enough,
but I wasn't sure how to properly address the problem in the dt overlay
code, and I was concerned that other code might be affected as well,
so I gave up trying and settled on error handling.

Looks like Frank is going to provide a proper fix, so we should be covered.

Thanks,
Guenter