@Andy: i've installed natty (went fine) and tried your patched kernel: it hangs on boot on my Acer 4520, as it does with Maverick. So the patch does produce regression, at least on my hardware.
@Andy: i've installed natty (went fine) and tried your patched kernel: it hangs on boot on my Acer 4520, as it does with Maverick.
So the patch does produce regression, at least on my hardware.