Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> To a large extent this reverts b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
> while still keeping to the spirits of it's goal, the ability to
> make smart guesses about how the timer irq is routed when the BIOS
> gets it wrong.
>...

That's code where every changed line has a great potential of causing a 
different kind of breakage on someone else's computer.

Your comment therefore translates to "revert commit 
b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77 for 2.6.20 and try to find a 
better solution for 2.6.21".

cu
Adrian

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