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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:07:14 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Leroy van Logchem <leroy.vanlogchem@wldelft.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, roland@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix COMPAT_VDSO regression bug
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> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:38:40 +0100 Leroy van Logchem <leroy.vanlogchem@wldelft.nl> wrote:
>     Revert "[PATCH] Fix CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO"
>     This reverts commit a1f3bb9ae4497a2ed3eac773fd7798ac33a0371f.
> 
>     Several systems couldnt boot using CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y as
>     reported in bug #8040. Reverting the above patch solved the problem.

I think reverting it is probably the right thing to do, unless we can fix it for
real quite promptly.

But nobody will be able to apply this patch - your email client as really gone
to town on it - the results are phenomenally ugly.

And the patch wouldn't have applied to mainline anyway - there have been other changes.