Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient.
> 
> Well, the ppc oops seems to be a ppc bug regardless.
> 
> If CPU_HOTPLUG isn't defined, the thing does nothing. And if it is 
> defined, I don't see why/how ppc can validly oops. So I think the first 
> thing to do is to try to figure out why it oopses, not to disable it for 
> ppc.

Fair enough. OTOH for the affected PPC users it's a regression and that's 
what I'm concerned of.

	tglx


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