Please pull from 'for-2.6.27'

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Sep 17 04:41:58 EST 2008


On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Kumar Gala writes:
>
>>> Jochen Friedrich (1):
>>>     powerpc/cpm1: Fix race condition in CPM1 GPIO library.
>
> This looks like a biggish change for after -rc6, and the commit
> message doesn't tell me what dire things will happen if the patch
> doesn't go in, or what systems see this breakage, or whether this is a
> regression since 2.6.26 (I assume it isn't).  It doesn't even tell me
> why not being thread-safe is a problem on a UP machine.
>
> So... why does this fix need to go in at this stage?

We can probably hold off on that one as no one is screaming, can you  
cherry pick Timur's .dts patch as its a clear bug?

- k



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