Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030304AbXAHWVF (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:21:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030310AbXAHWVF (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:21:05 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:3535 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030304AbXAHWVD (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:21:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:21:05 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Tobias Diedrich , Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mingo@redhat.com, discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails. Message-ID: <20070108202105.GB6167@stusta.de> References: <5986589C150B2F49A46483AC44C7BCA490733F@ssvlexmb2.amd.com> <86802c440701022223q418bd141qf4de8ab149bf144b@mail.gmail.com> <20070108005556.GA2542@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 30 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > To a large extent this reverts b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77 > while still keeping to the spirits of it's goal, the ability to > make smart guesses about how the timer irq is routed when the BIOS > gets it wrong. >... That's code where every changed line has a great potential of causing a different kind of breakage on someone else's computer. Your comment therefore translates to "revert commit b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77 for 2.6.20 and try to find a better solution for 2.6.21". cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/