Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Merge branch 'x86/iommu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus"

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:04:17 -0700 (PDT)

From: Joerg Roedel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:03:28 +0200

> That may be the reason that your fix is not yet upstream.

The reason is more-so because Linus simply hasn't merged more
than a couple of patches since 2.6.27-rc1 was released.