From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751066AbaAKXiq (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:38:46 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39194 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbaAKXio (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:38:44 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:38:48 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Winkler, Tomas" Cc: "arnd@arndb.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "Usyskin, Alexander" Subject: Re: [char-misc 1/4] mei: do not run reset flow from the interrupt thread Message-ID: <20140111233848.GB6819@kroah.com> References: <1389205164-13553-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1389205164-13553-2-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <20140108232410.GA11300@kroah.com> <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B1AF40FBF@HASMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B1AF40FBF@HASMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:46:14PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote: > > > > > > This is a _really_ big patch for a stable kernel tree. Are you sure > > it's needed there? Please go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > > again. > > I understand it's big though currently I do not have significantly > simpler fix for the issue, all 4 patches are needed to make the reset > issue go away. What is the "reset issue"? Who is it affecting? What is the problem? Is there a work-around without this patchset? As it is, I can't take something this big for the stable tree, sorry. greg k-h