On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:31:12AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Stuff like this is very easy to miss when it comes in the middle of the > > general spam about stable kernels; the review mails do get rather > > vouluminous and unfortunately for me they end up going outside my normal > > upstream mail flow so are even easier to miss than normal. > How can I make it better stand out? I added the "WTF:" prefix to try to > have it be more "noticed". Not sure. I think it's partly a time based thing - if I see a mailbox full of -stable mails in the morning it's very easy to miss one with a different subject to the others. I also think that for me not using a prefix might help, I tend to pattern match on the prefix but I think that has the effect of meaning that anything that looks like a prefix that's not one of mine gets filtered out. > > This is needed because any attempt to fiddle directly with the register > > cache data structures will at best corrupt memory and at worst crash > > with modern kernels, the register cache it's trying to access directly > > doesn't exist any more and hasn't for quite some time. > Ok, thanks for the explaination, that makes sense. I'll go queue it up > for the next stable kernel release. Thanks.
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