<#part sign=pgpmime> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:54:25 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote: > I'm on the fence whether we should include this in -fixes. On one hand it > fixes a severe issue on snb, but introduces a perf regression without the > second patch. Otoh we've never shipped snb without it broken like this. > But if it turns out that this is broken on ilk and earlier, too, I think > we definitely need these two patches in -fixes. The first one is a simple bug fix -- not attempting to use the status page value. That seems reasonable for -fixes. The second one has a bunch of global changes which seems less suitable for -fixes, especially as it now requires that the driver reliably track ring positions, which seems a bit perilous to me. -- keith.packard at intel.com
