From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759556Ab0CNSa7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:30:59 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:41306 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752384Ab0CNSa4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:30:56 -0400 To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jiri Kosina , Larry Finger , WANG Cong , Tejun Heo , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70 References: <4b9be956.x5+yAHXGDfXer810%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <20100314181131.GC28359@suse.de> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:30:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20100314181131.GC28359@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Sun\, 14 Mar 2010 11\:11\:31 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: gregkh@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, jkosina@suse.cz, torvalds@linux-foundation.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:46:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> > >> > It also only affects those fairly rare lockdep users as well, and the only >> > affect is to throw a nasty warning message. Isn't lockdep all about throwing >> > nasty warning messages? >> >> Hmm. The report has that "BUG: " message in it (and in the subject line), >> but you're right - it ends up being just a warning, not actually a real >> BUG() (which is a machine killer). >> >> So yeah - it's not as bad as I thought. Sorry. > > It's a messy warning, I have patches that should fix the remaining ones > that I will send to you tomorrow. Greg if you have it that is great. I started looking through the emails I received and it looks like you weren't copied on all of them. At this point I will double check after you send out your changes to Linus. That we have everything I have seen reported. Eric