linux-kernel - Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

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Message-ID: <20070307132621.GA8084@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:26:21 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:25:32AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Linus Torvalds (2):
> >       Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant"
> >       Linux 2.6.21-rc3
> 
> Greg, I think we should revert that patch in 2.6.20.x stable serie too
> as get_order is broken there as well, causing random kernel memory
> corruption every now and then among others.

Now added to the -stable tree, thanks for pointing it out to me.

greg k-h
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