Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751921AbWI3UVV (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:21:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751928AbWI3UVV (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:21:21 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:39582 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751921AbWI3UVV (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:21:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:21:17 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Eric Rannaud , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , nagar@watson.ibm.com, Chandra Seetharaman , Andi Kleen , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18) Message-ID: <20060930202117.GO29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <5f3c152b0609301220p7a487c7dw456d007298578cd7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 13 On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:54:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We need Al Viro here to put this kind of code into perspective. I _think_ > he would have some choice words for code that is meant to "help" > debugging, and is this horrible. Oh, so _that_ is what it is supposed to do? I've seen it when it went in, tried to read, barfed and chalked it up to KDB or itanic braindamage (both have turds of that genre). Didn't realize that lockdep used it too... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/