Re: 3.2-rc2+: Reported regressions from 3.0 and 3.1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Subject    : Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic
> Submitter  : Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date       : 2011-11-03 12:14
> Message-ID : CAJtFfxmovJHspHHKbvBVc4pw+u5mjGmUejCXEzdV+GqE=jVSOQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132032253903074&w=2

So while funny, I doubt this is actually a bug. It's a feature, as
pointed out by Clemens Ladisch in that thread.

It's simply sysrq-c: "perform a system crash by a NULL pointer dereference".

Now, I'm perfectly willing to consider that feature to be a
mis-feature, and that this should be considered a bug to be fixed. But
it is not a regression.

Keeping it on the regression list just because it is amusing is
understandable, though ;)

                    Linus
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