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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: ACPI: Avoid bogus EC timeout when EC is in Polling mode
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:16:35 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:29:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11594, Robert points out
> that this fix should be backported into 2.6.26.x.
> 

EC changes are typically fragile. I think it would be better to be conservative
here and avoid early backports if possible. Of course it's Len's final call.

-Andi