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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181636767.8176.199.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070612010735.GL3723@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 18:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> > hm, this needs a bit of help to get it to work against Len's current tree.
> 
> Here's some help, compile tested only.  Udo/Thomas, was this found to
> be root cause of a real bug?  I didn't want this to get lost if it's
> still meant to be relevant for -stable.

Chris,

I fixed this against -mm already. I don't think that it is relevant for
stable. The issue was found with Venkis hpet force enable patches on a
ICH4 system. I doubt that any of those systems has hpet enabled in the
BIOS. It should not affect later ICH chip sets. Venki, is this correct ?

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  9:37 [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-06 21:02 ` [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3arbiter shutdown Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-06-07  1:38 ` [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  1:43   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-06-12  1:07   ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2007-06-12  8:26     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-06-12 12:54       ` [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer accessbefore " Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-06-12 16:58         ` Chris Wright

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