Re: [stable] [PATCH urgent] x86: Save cr4 to mmu_cr4_features atboot time

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:08:12PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > P.S.
> >
> > I asked for a backport of e5f15b45ddf3afa2bbbb10c7ea34fb32b6de0a0e to the 
> > stable trees because I forgot to add "CC stable@xxxxxxxxxx" to the commit 
> > message and this commit is needed to fix a critical crash on boot on xen.
> 
> You are displaying a dangerously amateurish attitude towards quality control 
> and you clealy have no idea what it takes to push fixes into -stable.
> 
> You forwarded a brand-new, visibly dangerous native kernel commit to -stable 
> without Cc:-ing the maintainers and you have caused a native kernel regression 
> that way. You are not maintaining the code in question and you have not 
> committed the patch in question.
> 
> -stable team, please revert this commit. The whole issue obviously needs more 
> testing and we'll forward a proper fix once it's available and tested.

Ok, when I return from vacation on Tuesday I will revert it and do new
releases.

thanks,

greg k-h
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