From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 8255] Frequency Scaling not working properly using powernow-k7
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:43:17 -0400
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Dave,

bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8255

> Okay. I tracked down the problem with git. Here is what is the submission that
> causes the problem:
> 
> solaris linux-git # git bisect good
> 0916bd3ebb7cefdd0f432e8491abe24f4b5a101e is first bad commit
> commit 0916bd3ebb7cefdd0f432e8491abe24f4b5a101e
> Author: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Date:   Wed Nov 22 20:42:01 2006 -0500
> 
>         [PATCH] Correct bound checking from the value returned from _PPC method.

The above commit seems to be the culprit behind this 2.6.19 regression, 
which is still present as of 2.6.21-rc3 (so it's not the earlier issue 
found by Ingo). Any ideas?

Thanks,
Daniel