On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:13:40 Alan Cox wrote:
> > - It's not only code, it also bloats everyone's kernel image.
>
> Its a miniscule piece of code that is discarded on boot. Yes it might
> make the image 100 bytes longer, but have you priced a 160GB disk
> recently. I don't think 100 bytes of disk and 0 of memory really is worth
> saving for any risk at all. Its not even worth the time to apply the
> patch.
The patch is already applied.
Besides the CPU will likely boot even without special handling.
-Andi
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