From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753561AbXC3URu (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753549AbXC3URu (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:17:50 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43493 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753543AbXC3URt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:17:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:10:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Mitch Williams , 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) Message-ID: <20070330201017.GA21944@suse.de> References: <1175280848.17652.5.camel@strongmad> <20070330124747.f20c9eb0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070330194956.GA8028@suse.de> <20070330130022.862f6849.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070330130022.862f6849.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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 01:00:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:49:56 -0700 > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" > > > > > > 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