Re: [PATCH] ARM: BUG() dies silently

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

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@xxxxxx> 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.

Regressions trump bug fixes.
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