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Re: unable to use dpkg 2.6.15-rc2

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: unable to use dpkg 2.6.15-rc2
From: Luca <kronos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:21:06 +0100
Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@xxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Il Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:23:50AM +1100, Nathan Scott ha scritto: 
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:44:43AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:20:27PM +0100, Luca wrote:
> > > (please CC me, I'm not subscribed)
> > > 
> > > Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> > > >> It's reproducible in 2.6.15-rc1, 2.6.15-rc1-mm1, 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 and
> > > >> 2.6.15-rc2.
> > > >> 
> > > >> It does not occur in 2.6.14.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Most easily triggered by "make clean" in the Linux source, for those of
> > > >> you without access to dpkg. But both clean and dpkg will trigger it.
> > > > 
> > > > So far I've not been able to reproduce this; I'm using "make clean"
> > > > and it works just fine for me (I'm using the current git tree).
> > > 
> > > Confirmed here with 2.6.15-rc1 an IDE disk. Kernel is UP with
> > > CONFIG_PREEMPT and 8KB stack. The following debug options are enabled:
> > > 
> > 
> > Keith Owens has managed to reproduce this locally, and has been
> > working on tracking it back to a single change - so, we'll start
> > trying to figure out whats gone wrong here shortly, and will get
> > a fix merged as soon as we can.
> 
> FYI - this problem is now fixed in Linus' current git tree.

Great, I'll give it a try ASAP. BTW why using a macro instead of an
inline function makes any difference? I don't understand...

Luca
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