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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [stable-4.9: PATCH] xen: revert commit 72a9b186292
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On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 07:11:56AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification
> through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong
> that all the removed code isn't in use any more.
> 
> It is still necessary for old Xen versions (< 4.0) and for being able
> to run the Linux kernel as dom0 in a nested Xen environment.
> 
> This is a backport of upstream commit 84d582d236dc1f9085e741affc72e9ba061a67c2

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h