linux-kernel - Re: aperture_64.c: corner case wrong

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Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:48:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...emonkey.org.uk, andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: aperture_64.c: corner case wrong

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > > So what happened with this?  Thomas has merged an "x86: 
> > > aperture_64.c: cleanups" from yourself but it appears that half of 
> > > this bugfix got applied somewhere and the below part did not?
> > 
> > Err, no. I seem to have dropped the patch completely. I'm picking it 
> > up again.
> 
> no, it was not dropped (we dont drop patches :), here are all the 
> arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c patches in -tip:
> 
>  earth4:~/tip> tip-log arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c | grep ^#
>  # x86/gart: 1edc1ab: x86: agp_gart size checking for buggy device
>  # x86/gart: 8c9fd91: x86: checking aperture size order
>  # x86/gart: 7677b2e: x86_64: allocate gart aperture from 512M
>  # x86/gart: 55c0d72: x86: clean up aperture_64.c
>  # x86/gart: 0abbc78: x86, aperture_64: use symbolic constants
>  # x86/gart: dd564d0: x86: aperture_64.c: cleanups
> 
> so it's commit dd564d0 - but that second chunk Andrew noticed indeed 
> went missing in action.

No, the patch was titled: ".... - corner case wrong" its missing and
I'm wondering why.

/me digs into git branches

Thanks,
	tglx
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