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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:03:28 +0200

> That may be the reason that your fix is not yet upstream.

The reason is more-so because Linus simply hasn't merged more
than a couple of patches since 2.6.27-rc1 was released.