On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:46:57 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > lkml discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/385438/focus=385478
> >
> > Already in -mm?
> >
> > From: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
> >
> > Ubuntu patch location:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ce2ed3a63172c6ce0b97069e449960c2d538623
> >
>
> hm. This is actually a reversion of
> 529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714, so it presumably reintroduces the
> problem discussed in that lkml thread.
>
> Ben, what's the story here?
This was pulled in to try to fix some problems we were seeing on
sparc64. However, this backported patch broke other architectures (I
think x86_64 wouldn't even boot), so was reverted.
I can't remember any more details than that.
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