linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Reserve FIRST_DEVICE_VECTOR in used

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Message-ID: <20081003085656.GB27551@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:56:56 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Reserve FIRST_DEVICE_VECTOR in used_vectors
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* Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I didn't see any follow up, so for clarification: there is nothing to 
> fix in tip but the bug is there in kernels between 2.6.24 and 2.6.27. 
> Could you push it to 2.6.27 and possibly to the stable trees?

it's too late for v2.6.27 - this bug permeates so many kernel versions 
that it's clearly not in the '2.6.27 regression' category. But it can be 
asked to be included in -stable after v2.6.27 is released.

	Ingo
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