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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Pierre Rousselet <pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.1-pre5 not easy to boot with devfs
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 10:55:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112021755.fB2Hthl10340@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112021150310.12801-100000@binet.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3C0A025C.88B7A2C3@wanadoo.fr> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112021150310.12801-100000@binet.math.psu.edu>

Alexander Viro writes:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Pierre Rousselet wrote:
> 
> > Here is the final (i hope) verdict of my devfs testbox :
> > 
> > 2.4.16 with devfsd-1.3.18/1.3.20 : OK
> > 2.4.17-pre1         "            : Broken
> > 2.5.1-pre1          "            : OK
> > 2.5.1-pre2 with or without v200  : Broken
> > 2.5.1-pre5          "            : Broken
> 
> IOW, merge of new devfs code (2.4.17-pre1 in -STABLE, 2.5.1-pre2 in -CURRENT).
> 
> We really need CONFIG_DEBUG_* forced if CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is set.  Otherwise
> we'll be getting tons of bug reports due to silent memory corruption.
> 
> Keith, is there a decent way to do that?  For 2.4.17 it would help a
> lot...

Is that worth the effort? Hopefully by 2.4.17-rc I'll have fixed the
bug, so it won't be an issue.

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-02 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-01  4:43 Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-01  5:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-01  5:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-01  7:01 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-01  8:45   ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-02 19:40     ` Bongani Hlope
2001-12-01  9:59   ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-01 18:36   ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-01 20:37     ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-01 23:20     ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02  1:11       ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-02 10:28         ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-02 16:59           ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-02 17:14             ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 18:02             ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-03 12:58               ` Jens Axboe
2001-12-03 19:06               ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-03 20:52                 ` Jens Axboe
2001-12-02 22:57             ` Keith Owens
2001-12-03  4:50               ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-02 17:55           ` Richard Gooch [this message]
2001-12-03 19:54             ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-02  8:05       ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-01 23:47     ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02  7:11       ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-02 21:22       ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02  9:27     ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-12-03  6:33 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-03  5:57   ` Pierre ROUSSELET
2001-12-03 12:16   ` Pierre Rousselet

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