From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch added to 3.12-stable] bnx2x: Add new device ids under the Qlogic vendor
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:41:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FE4240.1010607@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO2PR11MB0088F159A94C2EF73532CEC4979A0@CO2PR11MB0088.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On 04/01/2016, 10:59 AM, Yuval Mintz wrote:
>> From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
>>
>> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> commit 9c9a6524b5fdf6cb57c9ff627b7f242a6a4e0b00 upstream.
>>
>> This adds support for 3 new PCI device combinations - 1077:16a1, 1077:16a4
>> and 1077:16ad.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
>
> Hi Jiri,
>
> From the top of my head, I'm not sure 3.12 has the necessary phy code for
> supporting the new device IDs; We might find ourselves with dysfunctional
> devices.
>
> I'll have to verify it with our link-team, but it would probably take a couple
> of days before I'll have a definite answer.
Hi, no problem. I am not going to make a release in the next days.
> BTW, why are we pushing for this to be backported to a stable kernel?
> Given that it's not really a bug fix.
This conforms to
- New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.
of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-01 8:36 [patch added to 3.12-stable] sched: Fix race between task_group and sched_task_group Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] Btrfs: skip locking when searching commit root Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] bnx2x: Add new device ids under the Qlogic vendor Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:59 ` Yuval Mintz
2016-04-01 9:41 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] drivers/base/memory.c: fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64 Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] ALSA: rawmidi: Make snd_rawmidi_transmit() race-free Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] ALSA: seq: Fix leak of pool buffer at concurrent writes Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] memcg: do not hang on OOM when killed by userspace OOM access to memory reserves Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] USB: fix invalid memory access in hub_activate() Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] intel_pstate: Use del_timer_sync in intel_pstate_cpu_stop Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] KVM: SVM: add rdmsr support for AMD event registers Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] USB: visor: fix null-deref at probe Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] s390/mm: four page table levels vs. fork Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] hwmon: (coretemp) Increase limit of maximum core ID from 32 to 128 Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] perf, nmi: Fix unknown NMI warning Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] Fix kmalloc overflow in LPFC driver at large core count Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] nfs: fix high load average due to callback thread sleeping Jiri Slaby
2016-04-01 8:36 ` [patch added to 3.12-stable] net/ipv6: fix DEVCONF_ constants Jiri Slaby
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