From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Ramirez Luna, Omar" <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>, lk <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lak <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: BUG() dies silently
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:59:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110919165943.GX16381@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110919144313.GU16381@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:43:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:26:49AM -0500, Ramirez Luna, Omar wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> wrote:
> > > If the "Use generic BUG() handler" patch is only scheduled for the next
> > > merge window and not for 3.1, can this patch be merged instead for 3.1
> > > and -stable? This problem is easily seen with GCC 4.6.
> >
> > I can send it for both and let the maintainers decide.
> >
> > Russell, do you give your ack?
>
> I think it's too large a change for -stable and 3.1 - let's get it into
> 3.2 first, and make sure no one sees any regressions there. Then we can
> think about submitting it to stable once its proven itself.
And we're seeing link failures with the patch in the kernel, so it's
*definitely* not stable material as it stands, even if the current code
is a problem for GCC 4.6.
Regressions trump bug fixes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-31 20:15 Omar Ramirez Luna
2011-04-01 1:47 ` Simon Glass
2011-04-01 8:44 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-04-01 22:29 ` Simon Glass
2011-04-03 7:15 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-04-05 1:55 ` Simon Glass
2011-04-05 17:36 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-04-05 2:29 ` Ramirez Luna, Omar
2011-04-05 5:46 ` Simon Glass
2011-04-05 16:02 ` Ramirez Luna, Omar
2011-04-05 16:43 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-17 6:07 ` Rabin Vincent
2011-09-19 14:26 ` Ramirez Luna, Omar
2011-09-19 14:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-19 16:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-09-19 18:02 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-19 18:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-19 18:32 ` Ramirez Luna, Omar
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