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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:58:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] please pull one bug fix for v4.4
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On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The merge window is open, so I started looking at this that I had
> ignored as being too late last time..
> 
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Jeff Merkey <linux.mdb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Patch address with email included:
> >
> > https://github.com/jeffmerkey/linux/commit/e1d3c76814c839a835286843f0bca33b0c5d0dd8.patch
> 
> So at a minimum, I'd like a sign-off for the patch. But also, can you
> describe how to actually trigger the problem? Is this actually
> triggerable without an ICE?

This patch has been discussed and the version above has issues. It's still not
decided how we are going to deal with that.

Thanks,

	tglx