Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:07:24 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
       linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.6.24][regression fix] Mempolicy: silently restrict
 nodemask to allowed nodes V3
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:30:22 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew
> 
> # this is second post of the same patch.
> 
> this is backport from -mm to mainline.
> original patch is http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120250000001182&w=2
> 
> my change is only line number change and remove extra space.

This is identical to what I have now.

> please ack.

As it's now post -rc1 and not a 100% obvious thing, I tend to hang onto
such patches for a week or so before sending up to Linus

Should this be backported to 2.6.24.x?  If so, the reasons for such a
relatively stern step should be spelled out in the changelog for the
-stable maintiners to evaluate.

Thanks.
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