Re: please revert commit 53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732(rtc: push the BKL down into the driver ioctl method)

[Eli Collins]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Jeff Chua wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jeff Chua wrote:
> >>
> >> This commit is breaking vmware-6.0.4. Upon booting linux (guest) on
> >> vmware, the whole vmware environment crashed.
> >
> > Quality hypervisor we have there...
> >
> >        -hpa
> >
> 
> Well then, lets hope Vmware will do something to fix this and remove
> the init_mm stuff.

The module fixes for 2.6.26+ kernels are in upcoming releases and should 
get backported to older ones.

Thanks,
Eli

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