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Date:	Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:14:20 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, discuss@...-64.org,
	torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes

Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 23:44 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> I think we had that argument before. IMHO such messages are completely
> useless. Hangs are not acceptable no matter what messages are printed
> before.

Oh so you plan to fix the iommu/aacraid problem you always said you
wouldn't fix ?
 
> > That gets us the best of both worlds.
> 
> Hanging systems? 

Working systems because the only hang case will be if you use hardware
that requires the new goodies on a box that is *actually* broken rather
than one which is misdetected by the paranoid check code. 

Alan

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