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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:46:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4691A196.7080305@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070708224444.GU3492@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> Reverting is safe since it simply re-establishes the 2.6.21 status quo.
>>>       
>> Well, not really.  It breaks any non-GPL module when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is
>> enabled, even though the same module would work fine otherwise.  That's
>> a pretty large regression.
>> ...
>>     
>
> The 2.6.21 status quo can by definition not be a regression compared
> to 2.6.21.
>   

2.6.21's behaviour was a bug.  CONFIG_PARAVIRT is not supposed to cause 
any behavioural changes.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-17 21:42 Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7 Adrian Bunk
2007-06-18  4:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-08 22:44   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-08 23:02     ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-08 23:17       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-09  9:39         ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-09 10:06           ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09 10:35             ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-09  9:32       ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09  9:39         ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-09 14:06         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-09  2:46     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-09  9:51       ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09 13:55         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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