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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>,
	Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com>, Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt.com>,
	<stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RapidIO: Fix use of non-compatible registers
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:28:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822122807.5b558d65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311703646-3453-1-git-send-email-alexandre.bounine@idt.com>

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:07:26 -0400
Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> wrote:

> Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not forward-compatible
> with newer versions of RapidIO specification.
> 
> RapidIO specification v. 1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR,
> Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com>
> Cc: Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt.com>
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

You did a cc:stable but provided no reason (that I can understand) for
backporting the patch.  Please explain why the problem is sufficiently
serious to warrant this action.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-22 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26 18:07 Alexandre Bounine
2011-08-22 19:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-08-23 12:55   ` Bounine, Alexandre

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