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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: tip.git regression from "vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users"
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:11:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BBD715.9050009@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090314110850.GA5174@damson.getinternet.no>

Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 2009/3/14 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>:
>   
>> Change fef20d9c1380f04ba9492d6463148db07b413708, "vsprintf: unify the format
>> decoding layer for its 3 users", causes a regression in xenbus which results
>> in no devices getting attached to a new domain.  Reverting
>> fef20d9c1380f04ba9492d6463148db07b413708 and
>> 39e874f8afbdb3745e2406ce4ecbde9ac4cbaa78 fixes the problem.
>>
>> I haven't identified what format string is being handled wrongly, so I don't
>> know what the precise bug is.  The most complex looking format in use seems
>> to be %.*s; there's also "%s/%s", "%i" and "%lX".
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> At least %.*s seems to be broken. How about this patch?
>   

Thanks, that does the trick.

    J

      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-14 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-14  7:04 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-14 11:08 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-03-14 16:11   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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