Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 18: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:2068 trace_hardirqs_on_caller

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:22:56 +1000

Hi Vegard,

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:59:12 +0200 "Vegard Nossum" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Ehe... and this is the reason why: The code was added by this patch:
> 
> commit 0e3638d1e04040121af00195f7e4628078246489
> Author: Dave Hansen <haveblue-r/[email-masked]>
> Date:   Thu Mar 16 17:30:16 2006 -0800
> 
>     warn when statically-allocated kobjects are used
> 
> ..which only exists in -next. Is that just a truly ancient patch, or
> did somebody forget to adjust their clock?
> 
> (Stephen: Maybe this has been answered before, but what's the best way
> to figure out where it came from?)

The easiest way is to ask me to look in my source tree (since I have the
heads of all the branches I merge - at least until the next day and gitk
then makes it easy ...).

In this case, that commit comes from the driver-core tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    [email-masked]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/