Re: stable-3.1: iwlwifi broken with nomsi

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:39:44PM -0800, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 15:32 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:28:42PM -0800, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 15:18 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:59:39PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > > > Hi Greg, 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I believe commit 63665158282dd3b5d70 (iwlwifi: allow pci_enable_msi fail)
> > > > > needs to be added to the 3.1 stable tree as the driver fails to probe
> > > > > with MSI disabled since commit 084dd79172cb3 (iwlagn: move PCI related
> > > > > operations from probe and remove to PCI layer) without it:
> > > > 
> > > > I do not see commit 63665158282dd3b5d70 in Linus's tree, did you get it
> > > > incorrect?
> > > > 
> > > > confused,
> > > > 
> > > it is commit#8a39ef8ba0fa0410d71db8e981e887fe4fdeca88 in Linville's
> > > wireless tree
> > 
> > How nice, and what exactly can I do with that at this point in time?
> > 
> Can I send the patch to you for stable 3.1?

Again:

> > Come on, please go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt again for
> > how to do this properly...

Please read that and see _HOW_ to do this, and what the requirements are.

greg k-h