From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2] revert fs/char_dev.c CONFIG_BASE_FULL change
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:33:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050417173354.GG21897@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504171006.53328.david-b@pacbell.net>
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:06:53AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> I tracked down a regression in PCMCIA (and other software) to a
> new bogus register_chrdev() behavior that got merged last month;
> a patch from Matt Mackall that misbehaves.
Thanks and sorry about that. I actually asked Linus to revert it right
after Andrew pushed it to him, but I hadn't actually seen a problem
report so I didn't pursue it.
> This patch just reverts Matt's, restoring the previous behavior
> but at the cost of about a Kbyte of static memory on 32bit CPUs.
> Someday a Real Fix(tm) would be good.
I've got a Real Fix (a refactor of block and chardev name
registration), will need to wait for .12.
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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