On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> To a large extent this reverts b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
> while still keeping to the spirits of it's goal, the ability to
> make smart guesses about how the timer irq is routed when the BIOS
> gets it wrong.
>...
That's code where every changed line has a great potential of causing a
different kind of breakage on someone else's computer.
Your comment therefore translates to "revert commit
b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77 for 2.6.20 and try to find a
better solution for 2.6.21".
cu
Adrian
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