From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:10:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070330201017.GA21944@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070330130022.862f6849.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:00:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:49:56 -0700
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > > > Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> > >
> > > Did we end up deciding whether this is (needed*safe) enough for 2.6.21?
> >
> > I say no for now, I have seen no bug reports for any hardware that is
> > not in a lab for this.
>
> Well. Presumably that hardware will be in the field during the lifetime of
> 2.6.21-based kernels.
>
> Perhaps we should put this into 2.6.22 then backport it to 2.6.21.x once it
> seems safe to do so. If we decide to go this way, we'll need to ask Mitch
> to remind us to do the backport at the appropriate time, else we'll surely
> forget.
Yes, that's what I just asked him to do a message ago :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-30 18:54 [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3) Mitch Williams
2007-03-30 19:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-30 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-30 19:49 ` Greg KH
2007-03-30 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-30 20:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-03-30 20:21 ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-03-30 20:24 ` Greg KH
2007-03-30 20:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-30 20:49 ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-03-30 20:56 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-30 21:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-03 7:41 ` [PATCH] msi: Immediately mask and unmask msi-x irqs Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-03 17:24 ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-04-03 18:52 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-04-03 19:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-03 20:57 ` Siddha, Suresh B
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