On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Lin Ming wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:59 +0800, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On Saturday 28 March 2009 05:30:56 Len Brown wrote: > > > From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Reported-by: FreeBSD community > > > Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> > > Does this fix something for real? > > It's a regression fix. > see "linux-next acpi changes make vmware server unusable" > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=123620365021296&w=2 To clarify... this fix is in response to a regression caused by the previous patch in this series. That is why it doesn't need to go to .stable. thanks, -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html