From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@redhat.com>,
<linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, <gregkh@suse.de>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] MSI: read-flush MSI-X table (rev 2)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:03:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18xdfjpbv.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08FE5CC30C9A3F41BF819A502CF7BF6EFCDB2B@fmsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> (Mitch A. Williams's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:05:56 -0700")
"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> writes:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>Are you going to post one for 2.6.20 as well? Some people might be
>>interested...
>
> The first time I posted this patch, Greg KH indicated that he thought
> it was too intrusive to add to -stable, especially considering that
> our MSI-X capable hardware isn't in the field yet.
There is MSI-X capable hardware supported by the kernel in 2.6.20.
The last version of your patch with the code removed from the set_affinity
path is not very intrusive at all, as it just touches msi.c
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 16:41 Mitch Williams
2007-03-29 16:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-29 22:01 ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-03-29 17:25 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-29 17:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-29 22:05 ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-03-29 22:14 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-30 5:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-30 5:03 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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