From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/39] [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Dont IPI to offline cpus on shutdown
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:37:54 +0100
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On Monday 27 February 2006 23:32, Chris Wright wrote:
> -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> ------------------
> 
> So why are we calling smp_send_stop from machine_halt?

I don't think that one is really suitable for stable since it's
a relative obscure problem and the fix is not fully clear. Also it might
have side effects. Shouldn't be merged.

-Andi
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