Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs

Paul Mackerras
2007-10-11T00:24:18Z

Linus Torvalds writes:

> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient.
>
> Well, the ppc oops seems to be a ppc bug regardless.

Sure. And Milton and Olof have figured out what the problem is and
proposed patches to fix it.

However, I'm a bit annoyed that a significant change in behaviour like
that, with a significant likelihood of causing regressions, went in so
late (after -rc8), in a manner that affects all SMP architectures, and
without being posted to linux-arch (unless I missed it).

Paul.