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On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> Joerg Roedel (3):
>       AMD IOMMU: panic if completion wait loop fails

What's the advantage to this, especially this late in the game?

Now, I tried to google for the message (while ignoring the patches), and 
as far as I can tell, it has never happened that google has noticed. But 
still, why was this pushed as a "fix"?

		Linus