Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all otherachitectures and kill notifier cruft"

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:18:46AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:17:37 +0000 (GMT)
> Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > So all distros with 2.6.24 kernels are useless to mmiotrace I don't
> > see why leaving things as is until a suitable replacement mechanism
> > can be used.. 
> 
> you work for a distro.. surely you can convince your own distro to carry this patch for one release?
> Maybe if it's this important.. so can the others...

But if it's good for a major distribution why is it not good for mainline?

We had this discussion at last kernel summit and the answer was clear.

-Andi
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