Re: [patch 30/41] ACPI EC: Fix regression due to use ofuninitialized variable

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:06:02PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:08:42 Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:46:48 Greg KH wrote:
> > > 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
> > > know.
> > Does this one patch cleanly in 2.6.27-stable?
> > I had it on my list, but this seem to have been introduced after
> > 2.6.27 and I thought I removed this one again?
> > Or this is a follow up of another fix that should go in?
> Yes this got in by another patch.
> The huge "make ACPI integer 64 bit aware" one. Which looked like
> it could fix really nasty bugs and is safe due to only long to long long
> conversions. But maybe this wasn't such a good idea, as exported
> kernel functions change from long to long long...

That's ok, there is no "stable abi" requirement for the -stable
releases.

thanks,

greg k-h
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