Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:28:15 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
       Linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- found another user
	with the same regression
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* David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > Note that the hpet fix is now upstream  [...]
> 
> Any chance this can be applied to stable 2.6.26.x?
> 
> Half of my agenda was selfish (to be sure future kernels would not 
> hang on my 2 home servers), but the other half was to ensure that 
> Debian would not have hanging kernels in their next stable release.

it's a backport candidate, but i think we should wait a bit with that, 
until after .27-rc5 or -rc6, to make sure there are no side-effects.

The upstream commit is:

 commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd
 Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
 Date:   Mon Aug 25 00:56:08 2008 -0700

    x86: fix HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25, check hpet against BAR, v3

btw., are both of your systems that were hanging fixed by this commit?

> Thanks again for all the hard work,

you are welcome!

	Ingo
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