Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

Andi Kleen
2007-02-21T21:24:08Z

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:47:37AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500
> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release.
> > >
> > > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so
> > > if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that tree,
> > > please let me know.
> > >
> > > There are 21 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> > > this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
> > > us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
> > > to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> > >
> >
> > What is the status of:
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-handle-irqs-pending-in-irr-during-irq-migration.patch
>
> That's mainly an Andi decision. Let's cc him.

I didn't think the problem was serious enough for a backport. Do we have
user reports?

It's certainly not trivial obvious patches.

Eric, what is your opinion?

-Andi