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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20.4] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3)
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Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
>
> Sorry, but this isn't going to go into 2.6.20 any time soon as it
> doesn't fit the rules for the -stable tree.
>
> But I'll take an updated version for my pci tree to go to Linus after
> 2.6.21 is out.

Greg this does fix a bug that affects 2.6.21.  We have hardware in 2.6.21 that
is affected And it at least seems to meet the obviously correct
criteria.  So at least for 2.6.21 I think it is interesting.

Eric