From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752803AbXC3Tvp (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:51:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753081AbXC3Tvp (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:51:45 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46009 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752347AbXC3Tvo (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:51:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:54 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Mitch Williams , 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) Message-ID: <20070330194854.GA7857@suse.de> References: <1175281427.17652.16.camel@strongmad> <20070330190951.GA18351@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:33:45PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH 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