Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:47:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
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       Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 021/104] lib/idr.c: fix rcu related race with idr_find
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> Revert.
> 
> This caused problems in the F10 kernel with idr, the drm device alloc
> went all wierd,
> it might be a drm bug but changing this code triggers it and so it
> isn't really "stable"

Well, maybe it should be reverted in mainlne too, then?

		Linus
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