On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, David Timothy Strauss <da...@davidstrauss.net> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> Since I haven't even heard a "my bad" from the systemd people, I'd be >> inclined to say that a bit of protection for future issues would be a >> good idea. > > Just coming back to this thread now, I'll say something. I'm a systemd > maintainer, and I'm sorry systemd's assertion bug, combined with > aliasing the debug option with the kernel's, broke a bunch of > workflows (including boot) and caused a bunch of unnecessary pain.
I think the real deeper bug in systemd is Kay Sievers and his development practices. > As a few other people have already said, this assertion should now be > fixed. The question is now about the debug option, and I've given my > +1 to Greg's patch for that. I think it's justified to put a condom on > systemd's debug mode given how badly the assertion bug cascaded into > affecting non-systemd work. Unfortunately it seems your +1 (and everybody else's in that thread) didn't matter as the patch was not applied. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
