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

Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09T23:30:26Z

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient.

Well, the ppc oops seems to be a ppc bug regardless.

If CPU_HOTPLUG isn't defined, the thing does nothing. And if it is
defined, I don't see why/how ppc can validly oops. So I think the first
thing to do is to try to figure out why it oopses, not to disable it for
ppc.

Linus