linux-kernel - Re: patch acpi-remove-locking-from-pm1x_sts-register-reads.patch added to 2.6.28-stable tree

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:49:05 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
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, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:30:50AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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....

It is, and not a bugfix?  If so, I'll drop it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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