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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org, csnook@redhat.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable][PATCH] pci: quirk disable MSI on via vt3351
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 02:20:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070527002052.GM3899@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526220104.GA11530@osprey.hogchain.net>

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:01:04PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> 
> The Via VT3351 APIC does not play well with MSI and unleashes a flood
> of APIC errors when MSI is used to deliver interrupts.  The problem
> was recently exposed when the atl1 network device driver, which enables
> MSI by default, stimulated APIC errors on an Asus M2V mainboard, which
> employs the Via VT3351.
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8472 for additional
> details on this bug.
>...

Please get patches included in Linus' tree _before_ submitting them for 
-stable.

Adding a fix to 2.6.21 that is not yet in 2.6.22-rc would create a 
regression in 2.6.22.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-27  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-26 22:01 Jay Cliburn
2007-05-27  0:20 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-05-27  1:26   ` Jay Cliburn

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