Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757447AbXJKAYS (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:24:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752520AbXJKAYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:24:07 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:50919 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752249AbXJKAYG (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:24:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18189.27936.484657.548537@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:24:00 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Greg KH , Olof Johansson , Greg KH , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Theodore Ts'o" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Justin Forbes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood , Domenico Andreoli , Mark Lord , Randy Dunlap , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Dave Jones , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Chuck Wolber , stable@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs In-Reply-To: References: <20071008180406.052382073@mini.kroah.org> <20071008180633.GJ7627@kroah.com> <20071009151702.GA19209@lixom.net> <20071009222003.GA21228@kroah.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 22 Linus Torvalds writes: > 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. Sure. And Milton and Olof have figured out what the problem is and proposed patches to fix it. However, I'm a bit annoyed that a significant change in behaviour like that, with a significant likelihood of causing regressions, went in so late (after -rc8), in a manner that affects all SMP architectures, and without being posted to linux-arch (unless I missed it). Paul. - 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/