linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft"

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Message-ID: <20080109071846.5c672a5c@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:18:46 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hch@....de, ak@...e.de, pq@....fi,
	jbeulich@...ell.com, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other
 achitectures and kill notifier cruft"

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:17:37 +0000 (GMT)
Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie> wrote:

> So all distros with 2.6.24 kernels are useless to mmiotrace I don't
> see why leaving things as is until a suitable replacement mechanism
> can be used.. 

you work for a distro.. surely you can convince your own distro to carry this patch for one release?
Maybe if it's this important.. so can the others...

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