Re: Avoid creating P2P prefetch window for expansion ROMs

From: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lcm@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Avoid creating P2P prefetch window for expansion ROMs
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:46:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071126224657.GB23277@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071126221545.GA15268@suse.de>

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:15:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:59:54PM -0800, Gary Hade wrote:
> > Greg, 
> > Without a closer look at the code and the information I
> > requested above I am not 100% certain that my expansion ROM
> > allocation fix is incomplete but it seems pretty likely that
> > it is.  If you feel that the possible regression that Jan
> > reported is more important than the issue I was trying to solve
> > feel free to remove the change until I can come up with
> > something better.
> 
> If you want me to revert the changes in Linus's tree right now, that's
> fine, I will, just send me a patch to do so.
> 
> But if you think you can work to solve this problem quickly, then I'm
> more than willing to keep the changes in the tree.
> 
> It's up to you.

Thanks Greg.  If I am unable to provide a revised (or properly
defend the current one :) in the next few days I will send you
a revert patch.

Gary

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