Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: try to detect host_bridge pci_cfg_space

H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-08T22:07:48Z

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:21:40PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Jesse or Matthew, can you pick this patch?
>
> Having reviewed it in light of HPA's comment, I don't have a problem
> with it:
>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
>
> However, I don't think it's my place to take this patch while Jesse is
> away; it doesn't feel like it's needed to be submitted between -rc7 and
> 2.6.29. Do you have a reason that it needs to be merged more urgently
> than 2.6.30-rc1?
>

I didn't see one... I was assuming it was a submission to be pushed
upstream during the merge window.

It doesn't fix a regression, so it doesn't seem to me to be a case for a
late -rc merge. It's hardware enablement, so it *might* qualify for
2.6.29-stable, as far as I understand Greg and Chris' policies.

-hpa

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