Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:16:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-mm1: module params broken |
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:06:39 +0000 (GMT) Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Takashi found a bug in it: > > Bless him. > > > --- a/lib/vsprintf.c~add-new-string-functions-strict_strto-and-convert-kernel-params-to-use-them-fix-2 > > +++ a/lib/vsprintf.c > > @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ int strict_strto##type(const char *cp, u > > if (ret != 0) \ > > *res = -(*res); \ > > } else \ > > - ret = strict_strtou##type(cp+1, base, res); \ > > + ret = strict_strtou##type(cp, base, res); \ > > \ > > return ret; \ > > } \ > > _ > > > > and I was very bad and didn't immediately prepare and upload the fix and > > hence probably wasted a lot of your time, for which I apologise. In my > > defense, it was 4:00AM Sunday and I had lost eye control by then. > > Please don't even begin to think of apologizing to me: > that's so much the wrong way round it's embarrassing.
three minutes saved here led to maybe an hour lost there.
> It's scary to think of how much of your time gets wasted > on knocking these -mms into some kind of shape that's > then ready for the rest of us to start attacking them.
Well yeah. Three minutes saved there (* 1000) led to maybe 1000 hours lost here. Kernel economics :(
> > Does that fix fix it? If not: patch overboard. > > Reprieve! Indeed that precisely fixes it: numerous > modules now working again with that fix. Thanks a lot.
Thanks.
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