Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753600AbZIEWm1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:42:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753585AbZIEWmZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:42:25 -0400 Received: from fanny.its.uu.se ([130.238.4.241]:37152 "EHLO fanny.its.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753577AbZIEWmX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:42:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19106.59719.36991.788931@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:42:15 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mikael Pettersson , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Alan Cox , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , OGAWA Hirofumi Subject: Re: [Bug #14015] pty regressed again, breaking expect and gcc's testsuite In-Reply-To: References: <19099.52899.620345.326521@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> <19100.31254.666066.755541@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> <200909012042.59856.rjw@sisk.pl> <19105.5352.28380.230615@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> <19106.16773.461397.654704@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1184 Lines: 28 Linus Torvalds writes: > > > On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > Thanks, I'm testing this and the pty_write() fix on i686 and ppc64 now. > > > > Sometimes the bug is difficult to trigger, so I may need to do loads of > > testing with different gcc versions before I dare to say that it's fixed. > > Ok, I'm going to commit the two patches, because even if there is some > other bug hiding too (and it doesn't fix your thing - although I think it > will), this is definitely a real fix regardless. > > And I want to do a -rc9 and let it get a couple of days of testing, since > I got way more pull requests than I hoped for while I was off diving. With these two fixes my i686 box finished all gcc bootstrap/regtest cycles I had scheduled with no signs of pty errors. My ppc64 box isn't done yet, but so far it's not seen any errors either. So I'm reasonably optimistic about these fixes. /Mikael -- 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/