Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:49:47 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: kurt.hackel@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] OCFS2: __init / __exit problem
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:38:21PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:07:02PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > It's a real problem that due to the fact that these errors have become 
> > runtime errors on i386 in kernel 2.6, we do no longer have a big testing 
> > coverage for them.  :-(
> Indeed. Those function declarations have been in there for a while,
> without any issue until now. Thanks for the patch Adrian.

The runtime error on architectures like i386 occurs in the error path of 
ocfs2_init().

This is the common problem that such error paths are only used once 
every dozen years and therefore get no real testing coverage...

> 	--Mark

cu
Adrian

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