From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 19:20:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: mvebu: second PCIe unit of Armada XP mv78230 is only x1 capable In-Reply-To: <20131106181241.GG8308@titan.lakedaemon.net> References: <20131106154326.27a4cc27@skate> <877gclcsjf.fsf@natisbad.org> <20131106181241.GG8308@titan.lakedaemon.net> Message-ID: <20131106192043.3f2d9ca0@skate> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Dear Jason Cooper, On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 13:12:41 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > However, while the PCIe DT stuff was merged in 3.10, the actual driver > > > itself was only merged in 3.11, so in 3.10, there is no chance to hit > > > the bug. > > > > > > Therefore, having this fix pushed to the stable 3.11.x and 3.12.x trees > > > would be good. > > oops, I forgot to reply to this. I disagree here. We shouldn't assume > that the dts file used will be from the same commit and the kernel > built. Additionally, it doesn't hurt to backport the change the whole > way. Well, I believe anyone trying to use mvebu .dts from one kernel version with a kernel image of another version will hit numerous problems. But ok, in principle I agree with you :) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com