To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:24:13 +0300
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Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

> On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:33:33 David Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm not applying this until all of these details are sorted out 
>
> John, please apply my fix to wireless-testing to get rid of the
> regression. You can revert it later, if there's a better fix
> available.

I agree, please take Michael's patch. It's trivial to change mac80211
part whenever there's better support available.

But I don't think this is a regression because I see the bug also with
2.6.28, most probably it has been in mac80211 forever. But it's still
a bug which needs to be fixed.

-- 
Kalle Valo