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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:30:50 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: patch acpi-remove-locking-from-pm1x_sts-register-reads.patch
 added to 2.6.28-stable tree

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:24:02 -0800
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:24:43AM +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009, gregkh@...e.de wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the
> > > patch titled
> > > 
> > >     Subject: ACPI: remove locking from PM1x_STS register reads


why is this -stable material?
this is a performance improvement....


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