Bug#512617: Flood of warnings from hpet_legacy_next_event()

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:32:47AM +0100, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> tags 512617 + patch
> thanks
> 
> I'm unfortunately able to reproduce this bug on an HP dc7900 with the
> latest available BIOS (V1.11).
> 
> The patch in 2.6.28 looks trivial to backport to 2.6.26: it consists simply of
> replacing WARN_ON with WARN_ON_ONCE. See
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=1de5b0854623d30d01d72cd4ea323eb5f39d1f16
> 
> There may be other reasons to prefer 2.6.28 on a dc7900, but I'd still
> be grateful if this simple fix could make it into lenny.

Merged in SVN for next Lenny kernel update.

Cheers,
        Moritz