Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] for drivers/char/sysrq.c | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:38:16 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> How did something this basic get submitted in the first place?!? > Doesn't anyone bother compiling patches before sending to Linus? > This is the second time today I've had to patch the kernel just to get > the rotten thing to compile. I'm not happy that whoever put in those > __builtin_expect()'s didn't bother testing with THE RECOMMENDED > COMPILER!!! It's not the first time that sort of thing has happened. > </whinge>
It got broken because the stable kernel API isnt. When I submitted it to Linus I missed one specific random api of the week variance. Its been in the -ac tree and vendor distros for a while, so it was tested.
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