From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Jon Mason <mason@myri.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [01/38] PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:56:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111011195611.GA2956@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo47Yw3Vygs5=OVmtUuLsB9FxJeYBm20UYem-Z3L7B0UhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:47:47PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:14:05PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> >> It's not obvious that this fits the criteria for -stable
> >> (Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt).
> >>
> >> For example, I can't tell what real problem this fixes.
> >
> > Yeah, it's not obvious, but I have had a lot of reports that 3.0 does
> > not work on some systems without this set of patches. Now figuring out
> > of those same systems ever worked at all is getting to be quite
> > difficult as I don't have access to the hardware, and the people that do
> > aren't responding to test requests. But from what I gather, 2.6.32 did
> > work on these boxes, so it is a regression somehow, but I am not
> > positive of this.
>
> I'd like to know more about this regression.
It shows up as an oops that prevents the machine from booting.
> > Now I'm very open to pushback, and if people really don't want these in
> > (i.e. the PCI maintainer(s) say no), then I'll drop them and work with
> > the distros to get them into their trees so that their customers's
> > systems will work properly.
>
> If distros want these patches, does that mean they have bug reports?
> URLs to them would be helpful.
All of the ones I have are "private" at the moment due to the hardware
and product being tested by the users, sorry.
I really wish that some of the people who had this problem would post
publically, and I guess we could just say, because they aren't being
public about it, it shouldn't go into a stable tree. And I don't have a
problem with that.
> I just haven't seen any concrete information that says -stable will be
> better off if it includes these patches. We've tripped over enough
> problems upstream that I'm concerned they might make things worse
> rather than better.
Even though it is disabled by default?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 16:59 [00/38] 3.0.7-stable review Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [01/38] PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric Greg KH
2011-10-11 17:20 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2011-10-11 18:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-10-11 19:24 ` Greg KH
2011-10-11 19:47 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-10-11 19:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-11 20:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2011-10-11 21:31 ` Greg KH
2011-10-11 20:22 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-10-11 21:32 ` Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [02/38] PCI: export pcie_bus_configure_settings symbol Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [03/38] PCI: Remove MRRS modification from MPS setting code Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [04/38] pci: Dont crash when reading mpss from root complex Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [05/38] Fix pointer dereference before call to pcie_bus_configure_settings Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [06/38] PCI: Disable MPS configuration by default Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [07/38] sparc64: Force the execute bit in OpenFirmwares translation entries Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [08/38] sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [09/38] sched: Fix up wchan borkage Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [10/38] ide-disk: Fix request requeuing Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [11/38] posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [12/38] lis3: fix regression of HP DriveGuard with 8bit chip Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [13/38] ASoC: use a valid device for dev_err() in Zylonite Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [14/38] ASoC: Fix setting update bits for WM8753_LADC and WM8753_RADC Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [15/38] drm/radeon: Update AVIVO cursor coordinate origin before x/yorigin calculation Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [16/38] drm/radeon/kms: Fix logic error in DP HPD handler Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [17/38] drm/radeon/kms: fix regression in DP aux defer handling Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [18/38] drm/radeon/kms: add retry limits for native DP aux defer Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [19/38] drm/radeon/kms: fix channel_remap setup (v2) Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [20/38] ptp: fix L2 event message recognition Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [21/38] rt2x00: Serialize TX operations on a queue Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [22/38] x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on ASUS M2V-MX SE Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [23/38] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2x00_abort_all_cmds() on unload Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [24/38] [SCSI] libsas: fix panic when single phy is disabled on a wide port Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [25/38] md: Avoid waking up a thread after it has been freed Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [26/38] dm table: avoid crash if integrity profile changes Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [27/38] mmc: mxs-mmc: fix clock rate setting Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [28/38] exec: do not call request_module() twice from search_binary_handler() Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [29/38] ARM: mach-ux500: enable fix for ARM errata 754322 Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [30/38] drm/radeon/kms: retry aux transactions if there are status flags Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [31/38] drm/radeon/kms: use hardcoded dig encoder to transmitter mapping for DCE4.1 Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [32/38] ipv6: fix NULL dereference in udp6_ufo_fragment() Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [33/38] ahci: Enable SB600 64bit DMA on Asus M3A Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [34/38] MIPS: PM: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM (v2) Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [35/38] ftrace: Fix regression of :mod:module function enabling Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [36/38] ftrace: Fix regression where ftrace breaks when modules are loaded Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [37/38] ftrace: Fix warning when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is not defined Greg KH
2011-10-11 16:55 ` [38/38] e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps Greg KH
2011-10-11 17:00 ` [00/38] 3.0.7-stable review Greg KH
2011-10-17 15:05 ` Conny Seidel
2011-10-17 15:21 ` Greg KH
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