Comment 21 for bug 644898

In response to the decision to drop the patch, mentioned in the following post:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-June/011112.html

I sent a message to kernel-team, pointing out that the resulting bug has definitely been noticed, and requested that the patch be put back in. This is the reply I received:

(Quote)

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:33:29PM +0800, Mark Crompton wrote:

> > Please re-instate this patch.
Please don't. This functionality needs to be merged into the driver, not
punted out in a way that lets userspace trigger arbitrary SMIs.

-- Matthew Garrett | (e-mail address removed)

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So the kernel team have passed responsibility for this bug to the driver.

Where to now?