netdev - Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc6: known regressions with patches

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:27:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, Ville Syrj?l? <syrjala@....fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Andrea Righi <righiandr@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Chad Tindel <ctindel@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Subject: Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc6: known regressions with patches



On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> 
> Memory management
> 
> Subject    : bug in i386 MTRR initialization
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
> Submitter  : Andrea Righi <righiandr@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Status     : patch available

This one wasn't a bug in the first place, it was just the regular warning 
for kmalloc-size-0. The "BUG" string was confusing and has been fixed, and 
the warning for size-0 has gone away and been replaced by returning a 
pointer that will fault on dereference instead.

So please remove this one.

		Linus
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