From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:17:13 -0700

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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so bisecting will be broken?

Good point, so I'll apply the thermal patch to my tree to minimize
the failure range.

yes, that "second" patch should be applied before this one.

But it's too late as the first one is already commited to my public
GIT tree on kernel.org and I never rebase my tree, ever.

So this is the only option to minimize the damage at this point.