linux-kernel - Re: Fix x86 32 bit FRAME

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Message-ID: <20080110110115.GD28740@does.not.exist>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:01:15 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Fix x86 32 bit FRAME_POINTER chasing code

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:54:38AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> it's a 2.6.24.1 candidate i believe. We trigger plenty of various 
> crashes during x86.git maintenance and others hit various crashes in 
> -mm, so by the time .1 is released we'll have it in .25 and can backport 
> it. Most folks/distros will update to 2.6.24.1 very quickly so there's 
> no risk of months loss of quality to kerneloops.org data either.
>...

-stable should not introduce additional regressions, and my personal 
impression is that it already introduces too many regressions.

Either this patch is considered both important and safe enough for 
getting into Linus' tree now or it's simply too late for 2.6.24*

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

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