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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient.

Well, the ppc oops seems to be a ppc bug regardless.

If CPU_HOTPLUG isn't defined, the thing does nothing. And if it is 
defined, I don't see why/how ppc can validly oops. So I think the first 
thing to do is to try to figure out why it oopses, not to disable it for 
ppc.

		Linus
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