Subject: Re: the printk problem

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:28:18 +1000

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 13:26 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:14:36 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'll give it a try using probe_kernel_address() instead on monday.
> > > 
> > > Here's the updated patch which uses probe_kernel_address() instead (and 
> > > moves the whole #ifdef mess out of the code that wants it and into a 
> > > helper function - and maybe we should then put that helper into 
> > > kallsyms.h, but that's a different issue).
> > > 
> > > Still all happily untested, of course. And still with no actual users 
> > > converted.
> > 
> > Did a few tests and it seems to work. I'll stick a patch converting
> > powerpc to use %pS for oops display in -next.
> 
> After you post it to linuxppc-dev and get review comments, of course ...
> 
> And after the patch to make %pS work goes in ...

Wasn't that already merged via the trivial scheduler fixes tree or
something? ;)

cheers

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