From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755575AbZBIQwW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:52:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754014AbZBIQwJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:52:09 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:53031 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753885AbZBIQwI (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:52:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:49:05 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: patch acpi-remove-locking-from-pm1x_sts-register-reads.patch added to 2.6.28-stable tree Message-ID: <20090209164905.GA5420@suse.de> References: <20090208211932.4CAB349019@coco.kroah.org> <200902090124.44228.s.L-H@gmx.de> <20090209162402.GA13931@suse.de> <20090209083050.361e997d@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090209083050.361e997d@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:30:50AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:24:02 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:24:43AM +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann > > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > On Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009, gregkh@suse.de wrote: > > > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the > > > > patch titled > > > > > > > > Subject: ACPI: remove locking from PM1x_STS register reads > > > why is this -stable material? > this is a performance improvement.... It is, and not a bugfix? If so, I'll drop it. thanks, greg k-h