Gérard Roudier wrote:
> I am not opposed to your patch and will not complain if it is applied to
> kernel 2.4. I just haven't time for submitting another patch quickly nor
> have time for following any breakage due to its new interactions with the
> kernel.


We'll deal with any breakage this patch incurs.  Alan,Linus  Is there any
problem applying this patch for 2.4.x ?  

it does:
* cleanup timer handling
* spin lock host list
* adds a reboot handler (for multi-stage boot setups like ours)
* remove __init from a function called from a non __init (needed for reboot
handler)

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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com