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Message-ID: <20190205135423.GA3919@ACM>
Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:54:23 +0000
From:   Alan Mackenzie <acm@....de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 34235@...bugs.gnu.org,
        Eli Zaretskii <eliz@....org>,
        Alex Branham <alex.branham@...il.com>,
        Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: 0e334db6bb4b1fd1e2d72c1f3d8f004313cd9f94 (posix-timers: Fix
        division by zero bug). Problems with glibc.

Hello, Thomas.

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 17:25:11 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

[ .... ]

> > I've just built and installed Linux 4.19.19, and it does indeed solve
> > the Emacs profiler bug, #34235.  :-)

> > I see that the patch has been installed in 4.20.6, 4.19.19, and 4.14.97.
> > Are there any plans to install it into 4.9.x, the other live long term
> > support branch?  The reason I ask is to make an entry into Emacs's
> > PROBLEMS file, telling users and distributions which kernel versions to
> > upgrade to.

> 4.9 doesn't have the offending commit AFAICT.

OK, thanks very much!  I've put these three version numbers into the
message in Emacs's PROBLEMS file.

I think we're finished, now.

> Thanks,

> 	tglx

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).