Re: [GIT pull] timer fixes for 3.4

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > I ran it through all the various (outdated) distros I have handy and
> > the printk didn't show once.
> >
> > I tried to figure out the reason for this NULL pointer thing, but
> > there is no trace of it on the intarwebs at all.
> 
> Ok. If we don't see any reports of messages, we can certainly remove it.
> 
> That said, would people actually *report* those messages?
> 
> In general, for things like this, it's probably better to just make
> the change (especially if you have several distros you can test), and
> then add a printk_once() for the case that changed. Then, if people

I changed it to a printk_once() already.

> actually report it as some program stopping to work, the dmesg
> hopefully clues us in about the reason for the program not working.
> But that would have needed to happen during the merge window, it's too
> late now.

Yeah, sorry. I queued it and missed to send it along in time, then
queued other real fixes on top of it. Feel free to revert it and i put
it up for 3.5

Thanks,

	tglx