Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

[Greg Kroah-Hartmann]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:11:45PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>  > > > > That single patch doesn't apply cleanly to Linus'
>  > > > > 8c84bf4166a4698296342841a549bbee03860ac0
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > What else is necessary?
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > Your tree seems to have a collection of random patches.
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > It might be useful to clone Linus' tree and produce a
>  > > > > branch with all the necessary printk patches in it so
>  > > > > someone else could pull it.
>  > > > 
>  > > > They should all now be in my driver-core-next branch that will show up
>  > > > in the next linux-next release, so having a separate tree isn't
>  > > > necessary.
>  > > 
>  > > I don't think so.
>  > > 
>  > > There are real defects in the existing code.
>  > > 
>  > > These are patches that are necessary _now_.
>  > > not for a -next 3.6 future.
>  > 
>  > Oops, sorry, I ment to type, "driver-core-linus" above.
> 
> Can you get this to Linus asap please ? I just had an oops that scrolled
> off the screen because the Code: line suffers the same problem.
> Thankfully serial console caught most of it, but I had to hand-edit
> a lot of crap just to make it readable again.

It will be sent tomorrow, I wanted to get it tested in linux-next at
least for one day.

thanks,

greg k-h
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