[PATCH] ARM: BUG() dies silently

[Simon Glass]

Hi Russell,

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:43:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:26:49AM -0500, Ramirez Luna, Omar wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in> wrote:
>> > > If the "Use generic BUG() handler" patch is only scheduled for the next
>> > > merge window and not for 3.1, can this patch be merged instead for 3.1
>> > > and -stable?  This problem is easily seen with GCC 4.6.
>> >
>> > I can send it for both and let the maintainers decide.
>> >
>> > Russell, do you give your ack?
>>
>> I think it's too large a change for -stable and 3.1 - let's get it into
>> 3.2 first, and make sure no one sees any regressions there.  Then we can
>> think about submitting it to stable once its proven itself.
>
> And we're seeing link failures with the patch in the kernel, so it's
> *definitely* not stable material as it stands, even if the current code
> is a problem for GCC 4.6.
>
> Regressions trump bug fixes.

Can you point me to the link failures please?

Regards,
Simon

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