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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803110922430.3781@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:25:21 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST for 2.6.25] Use an own random generator for
 pageattr-test.c

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Use an own random generator for pageattr-test.c
> 
> [Repost. Please ack/nack. This is a bug fix and imho a .25 late merge 
> candidate because it fixes a subtle bug]

Care to point out which "subtle bug" is fixed ? 

You replace a random generator by another to get repeateable
sequences. The non repeatability of the cpa test patterns is hardly a
"subtle bug".

Thanks,

	tglx
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