linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check

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Message-ID: <20070108202105.GB6167@stusta.de>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:21:05 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@...edrich.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mingo@...hat.com, discuss@...-64.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> To a large extent this reverts b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
> while still keeping to the spirits of it's goal, the ability to
> make smart guesses about how the timer irq is routed when the BIOS
> gets it wrong.
>...

That's code where every changed line has a great potential of causing a 
different kind of breakage on someone else's computer.

Your comment therefore translates to "revert commit 
b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77 for 2.6.20 and try to find a 
better solution for 2.6.21".

cu
Adrian

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