Re: [PATCH] Ignore pre-1.1 ASPM quirking when ASPM is disabled

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:25:53PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:48:59 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 01:41:49PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Right now we won't touch ASPM state if ASPM is disabled, except in
> > > the case where we find a device that appears to be too old to
> > > reliably support ASPM. Right now we'll clear it in that case, which
> > > is almost certainly the wrong thing to do. The easiest way around
> > > this is just to disable the blacklisting when ASPM is disabled.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> > 
> > That's <stable@vger.kernel.org> if we want to get it right :)
> > 
> > Anyway, Jesse, this needs to get into 3.3-final to prevent
> > regressions...
> 
> Any bz links to add to the changelog?  I'll fix up the stable cc when I
> commit...

Not that I know of, there was an email thread about this when I released
the 3.2.5 kernel that talked about the problems with it which caused
this patch to be created.

thanks,

greg k-h