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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:28:59 +0200

> Maybe not a bug in the Linux kernel itself, but certainly in the real world
> that exists around Linux. Similar to how a change to a device driver that
> is needed to work around broken hardware is a bug fix, imo.

It's not the same situation at all.

It is easier to fix misconfigured products that exist because of
software and configurations than it is to fix a physical piece of
hardware.

So you could work around it if you wanted to.

I definitely don't see this as -stable material, as a result.  We will
push it to net-next-2.6 and it will thus hit 2.6.36 as previously
mentioned.