From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register on resume Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:02:19 -0700 Message-ID: <4869D67B.4060902@zytor.com> References: <200807010148.02135.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080701063133.GC16642@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080701063133.GC16642-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, ACPI Devel Maling List , Andi Kleen , LKML , pm list , Pavel Machek List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The appended patch fixes a regression and is considered as 2.6.26 >> material. Everyone having a box with working suspend to RAM is gently >> requested to test it and verify if it doesn't break things. >> >> The patch applies to the current -git. > > it's been under testing in tip/out-of-tree for about a week: > > | commit ee901dc1b9ab94a37ba2efc296fe9ba72bc75adf > | Author: H. Peter Anvin > | AuthorDate: Tue Jun 24 23:03:48 2008 +0200 > | Commit: Ingo Molnar > | CommitDate: Wed Jun 25 18:48:13 2008 +0200 > | > | x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resume > > no problems caused by it so far. > It still seems incredibly risky to push this for 2.6.26, especially given the Elan revelation. I think it needs to be tested on the 2.6.27 track, and then possibly be pushed back via the 2.6.26-stable route. -hpa