Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:04:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for July 29 |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:41 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:06:50 +0200 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2008-07-29 21:48]: > > > > > Isn't this the opposite end of the same problem for which Bernhard > > > > > has been repeatedly trying to find a taker for his patch: > > > > > > > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kexec/1882 > > > > > > > > Yes. It's not the kobject patch at fault here, it's the use of kobjects > > > > so early in the boot process. That needs to be fixed. > > > > It was a bit optimistic to stick an unconditional GFP_KERNEL allocation > > into the previously-atomic kobject_init(). > > > > It's only 128 bytes, so why can't we fix both problems thusly? > > Fixes the bug for me (also true for previous patch from Bernhard). >
Cool.
The offending patch has just got itself turfed from linux-next so my fix now has nothing to fix.
We'll see what happens!
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