From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20.4] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070330194854.GA7857@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ejn6il0m.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:33:45PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> >
> > Sorry, but this isn't going to go into 2.6.20 any time soon as it
> > doesn't fit the rules for the -stable tree.
> >
> > But I'll take an updated version for my pci tree to go to Linus after
> > 2.6.21 is out.
>
> Greg this does fix a bug that affects 2.6.21. We have hardware in 2.6.21 that
> is affected And it at least seems to meet the obviously correct
> criteria. So at least for 2.6.21 I think it is interesting.
We do? What hardware has this reported problem showed up on? I haven't
seen any bug reports yet.
And I think it's way too late for something like this. If it's really
needed, I don't have a problem adding it to the 2.6.21-stable tree in a
few weeks.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-30 19:03 [PATCH 2.6.20.4] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3) Mitch Williams
2007-03-30 19:09 ` Greg KH
2007-03-30 19:12 ` Greg KH
2007-03-30 19:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-30 19:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
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