Re: [bisected] stray angle bracket in dmesg

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Oct 08 2012 - 11:35:34 EST


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:18:29PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2012.10.08 at 15:05 +0100, Wouter M. Koolen wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > After upgrading from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5 I started noticing log lines of the
> > form (just a random sample)
> >
> > pci_bus 0000:00: >resource 4 [io 0x0000-0x0cf7]
> > pnp 00:07: >Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0303 (active)
> > system 00:04: >[io 0x0680-0x069f] has been reserved
> > pci_root PNP0A08:00: >host bridge window [io 0x0000-0x0cf7]
> >
> > Note the right angle bracket between the device name and the message
> > string. These angle brackets were not there up till 3.5.4.
> >
> > This does not happen in all dmesg lines. Only the ones that start with a
> > device identifier.
> >
> > I assume this angle bracket was not intentional. Otherwise please excuse
> > the noise.
> >
> > I noticed this because all of these lines now suddenly slip through my
> > logcheck ignore rules.
> >
> > Bisection points to this commit:
> >
> > commit 3d822616ca81881d8c19d0b473e79ba241c700de
> > Author: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat Aug 18 18:35:51 2012 -0600
>
> This patch should be reverted for stable, since the move to ASCII SOH (
> commit 04d2c8c83d0) wasn't backported. So the fix just isn't necessary.

Ick, sorry about that, I'll go revert it for the next 3.5.y release,
thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h
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