From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757660AbXE0AVL (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:21:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751204AbXE0AU7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:20:59 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:45860 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbXE0AU6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:20:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 02:20:52 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jay Cliburn 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 Message-ID: <20070527002052.GM3899@stusta.de> References: <20070526220104.GA11530@osprey.hogchain.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070526220104.GA11530@osprey.hogchain.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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