[PATCH 1/3] ARM: kprobes: Prevent known test failures stopping other tests running

[David Long]

On 03/25/14 10:02, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:34:01PM -0400, David Long wrote:
>> On 03/24/14 12:56, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 04:49:05PM +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
>>>> Yes, I now see this in Russell's patch tracker (with a less verbose
>>>> commit message) as patch 7978, and it's marked as "Applied to git-curr
>>>> (uprobes branch)". Perhaps it got dropped along with the rest of the
>>>> uprobes branch when the config problems were discovered, Russell?
>>>
>>> If it was applied to the uprobes branch, and it wasn't part of David's
>>> uprobes git pull request, then yes, it doesn't exist anymore.
>>>
>>
>> OK.  Just to be absolutely clear:  this doesn't create any new problem,
>> but we do then need it in Tixy's new patchset in order to fix this older
>> bug.
>
> Okay, so I'll just wait for Tixy's patch set then?
>

You don't have to delay anything, just eventually (e.g.: v3.16) take 
Tixy's patch as  a separate patch fixing this old bug.  The uprobes 
stuff is fine just as it is.  There are no interdependencies.

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