Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:46:52 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.15-pre9 |
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Quite frankly, right now I'm in "handle only bugs that can crash the > > system mode". Anything that takes 497 days to see is fairly low on my > > priority list. My highest priority, in fact, is to get 2.4.15 out without > > any embarrassment. > > Umm... > a) /proc/interrupts has buffer overflows. > b) I have a patch that should fix them (conversion to seq_file, > done for all architectures) > c) while completely straightforward, it's large (every subarchitecture > of m68k and mips seems to have its own get_irq_list()) and may contain typos > in architectures I've no access to. > d) holes had been there for quite a while and it's either > "cat /proc/interrupts always causes memory corruption" or "everything OK" > > I'm not quite sure where it is - if we were in -pre<small> I'd definitely > say that it's worth merging, so that trivial typos could be caught before > the release; the hole obviously deserves fixing. OTOH, merging that in -final > means that we are risking "2.4.15 doesn't compile on <architecture>"...
If I understand things right, at least a few arches (PPC, MIPS, m68k, others) needs to implement show_trace_task anyhow, so we're already at 2.4.15 doesn't compile on <architecture>. I'd vote for a quick typo check and submit. :)
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