Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:59:43 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: BUG() dies silently |
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:43:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:26:49AM -0500, Ramirez Luna, Omar wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> wrote: > > > If the "Use generic BUG() handler" patch is only scheduled for the next > > > merge window and not for 3.1, can this patch be merged instead for 3.1 > > > and -stable? This problem is easily seen with GCC 4.6. > > > > I can send it for both and let the maintainers decide. > > > > Russell, do you give your ack? > > I think it's too large a change for -stable and 3.1 - let's get it into > 3.2 first, and make sure no one sees any regressions there. Then we can > think about submitting it to stable once its proven itself.
And we're seeing link failures with the patch in the kernel, so it's *definitely* not stable material as it stands, even if the current code is a problem for GCC 4.6.
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