From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@soft.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BUG] fix bug in ACPI based CPU hotplug
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:10:42 +0900
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@soft.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>>This patch fixes a serious bug in ACPI based CPU hotplug code. Because
>> of this bug, ACPI based CPU hotplug will always fail if NR_CPUS is
>> equal to or more than 255.
> 
> 
> Looks rather similar to
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm3/broken-out/acpi-signedness-fix-2.patch
> ;)
> 
> I think they're functionally equivalent - the only difference is the ==-1
> versus <0 comparisons.
> 
> 

Oh, I didn't noticed it.
Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige