From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] PCI: revert to allocating bottom-up, avoid E820 areas
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:00:02 -0800
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On 12/16/2010 01:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
>>
>> So I think the best band-aid for now is to revert to bottom-up allocation
>> and do a better job of avoiding E820 reserved areas.  Obviously, it's not
>> complete because we could still trip over ACPI devices (as in 23802), but
>> that's a problem we've always had and it's not as likely if we go bottom-up.
> 
> Ok, ack for this series. Have we got testers for it? In particular,
> have the people who have seen regressions been notified of this new
> series?
> 

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

... for the series as well.  For what it's worth.

	-hpa