On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:41:12PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:34:50PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:19:08PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > I really think we should stop this thread. User ABI breakage fixed now. > > > > > > No. Vince's email shows a more serious problem. > > > > > > The ABI breakage issue was reported before the patches were apparently > > > merged, but that information seems to have been lost. We need to > > > understand how that happened so similar instances don't happen in the > > > future. > > > > FYI, searching for "Vince Weaver" and "bogomips" found this: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/11/454 > > Gah. > > It looks like the report was made by hanging it into a totally different > thread to the patches which caused the problem, and which went nowhere > near the ARM kernel mailing lists.
yes, though by that point I had thought it was a done deal and so was mostly complaining about it with regard to another issue. I usually don't hang out on the ARM lists, but perf-event related ones, which was why I was primarily discussing the issue with Will Deacon in that case. > One thing I still can't get my head around though is... Vince reported > the breakage on 11 July 2013, but the patch is dated 30 August and I > merged it 2 September. So, how did Vince know about it to report the > ABI breakage? Had it been sitting somewhere else? That's a good question. Someone definitely had told me that is was going to happen earlier, but I can't remember where now. Definitely someone with enough authority that I thought it wasn't worth the trouble complaining (I already seemingly have half the perf_event people annoyed with me on any given day, the last thing I wanted to do was get all of the ARM devs mad at me too). Vince -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
