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Subject: Re: PING [PATCH 3/3] x86: decouple pat and mtrr handling
From:   Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@netscape.net>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On 8/13/2022 6:41 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> On 8/13/2022 5:48 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 05:40:34PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> > > I did a search for Juergen Gross on lkml and he is active submitting and
> > > reviewing patches during the past few weeks. However, he is ignoring
> > > comments on his patch to fix this regression.
> >
> > Please stop this non-sense and be patient. We will fix this soon. For
> > the time being you can use Jan's patch locally.
> >

Hi Boris,

I see you have signed off on Jan's patch with a slight modification as
the short-term fix that is also tagged to be backported to stable. Thank you!
I hope no other problems or objections pop up and Linus will merge it into
the mainline kernel soon. Please forgive me for my impatience.

Best regards,

Chuck