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Message-Id: <20080218045856.745e42b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:58:56 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Stable Team <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:45:42 -0800 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > Linus,
> > > >
> > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from:
> > > >
> > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master
> > > >
> > > > The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing
> > > > checks in the relative to absolute time conversion in the futex
> > > > code. It got caught by the WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event().
> > > >
> > > > The second patch prevents a false positive of the same WARN_ON().
> > > >
> > > > Fixes are confirmed to solve http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/137
> > >
> > > Are one of these needed in the stable tree?
> >
> > Yes, both are for stable as well. The report was against 2.6.24 stable
>
> Cool. But the stable team deals with individual patches, not git pulls.
> Can you send us the individual patches when they hit Linus's tree?
>
Confused. That assertion appears to conflict with your earlier
"you can just add a: Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org> to the signed-off-by
area, and we (the stable tree developers) will get an automated email
when it goes into Linus's tree, with the git changelog entry."
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