From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
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 15:31:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111011213138.GA3881@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111011200335.GJ10838@kvack.org>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 04:03:35PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:56:11PM -0600, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> ...
> > > I'd like to know more about this regression.
> >
> > It shows up as an oops that prevents the machine from booting.
>
> If it's a regression, the patch should be limited to fixing the bug. As
> it stands, this patch series introduces new functionality, and because it
> goes through a known broken state with the first patch, it may cause
> failures for people if they land in the middle during a bisect. This
> doesn't seem like the right approach for -stable.
Bisection here follows the same problems that happened in Linus's tree,
so that's not a big deal, it happens a lot in stable patches.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 21:34 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
2011-10-11 20:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2011-10-11 21:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
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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