Hi Norm, On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:56:38PM -0400, Norm Pierce wrote: > Michael, you wondered which kernel introduced this behavior. This problem > first appeared with kernel 2.6.28-rc9, 2008-Dec-19 and was released in > kernel 2.6.28, 2008-Dec-24. The correction first appeared in kernel > 2.6.30-rc3, 2009-Apr-22 and was released in kernel 2.6.30, 2009-Jun-10. > > Here are the related commits: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git;a=commit;h=1c55f18717304100a5f624c923f7cb6511b4116d > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git;a=commit;h=c0b7988200a82290287c6f4cd49585007f73175a
Thanks for your detailed investigation, it’s much appreciated. I’ll nonetheless keep the patch because it helps users with bad kernels and doesn’t harm those without the bug. Cheers, -- Michael Schutte <mi...@uiae.at>
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