On 02/01/2014 05:19 PM, George Spelvin wrote: >> OK, let's circle back for a bit. We have an active bug, and we clearly >> have a lot of restructuring that could/should be done. We need to fix >> the bug first; if we're going to a bunch of restructuring then that >> ought to be separate. The first bit is how we fix the immediate bug. > > Well, that's what the [PATCH] that started this thread,s for which seems > to greatly reduce the incidence. > > The issue being discussed here is the fact that it's far from clear to > people that the result of applying that patch is actually bug-free. > > Given how long it's been in shipping kernels (2.6.26 or 3.10, depending > on what you think causes it to trigger) and how few complaints there > have been, I'm happy to take a while to think about it. > Yes, I would agree with that. I guess I should have said "how do we fix the immediate bug(s) properly." -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html