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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:35:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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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.

Fair enough. OTOH for the affected PPC users it's a regression and that's 
what I'm concerned of.

	tglx


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