Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:39:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [GIT pull] timer fixes for 3.4 |
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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 I ran it through all the various (outdated) distros I have handy and 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
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