Am Freitag, 18. März 2011, 17:39:57 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, 21:19:24 schrieb Jesse Brandeburg: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Guy Martin <gmsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Jeff, > > > > > > Any luck getting this into mainline ? > > > > Hi Guy, sorry for the delay, > > We haven't been able to get our contacts in HP to give us a decent > > response so far, we are following up with them to see whats up. We > > have not lost the patch and are still tracking it internally. > > > > Give us a couple more weeks if that is okay and we should be able to > > settle this by then. > I wonder what exactly you are waiting for? This is a sanity check that we > disable, so no working systems could get broken by this. And every single > C8000 seems to be affected by this and is working fine with that patch. So > maybe people at HP might have a clue _why_ this is screwed, but until then > I don't see any point in waiting. > > So please just add my tested-by and push this upstream soon. Since this is > basically a hardware quirk I would like to get this into stable also so we > may run vanilla 2.6.38.1 or something like that on C8000. > > Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> For the netdev folks: it's this patch we are talking about http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-parisc/msg03091.html I would love to see that someone finally picks this up and pushes this upstream, CC stable. This is absolutely annoying as it breaks every time anyone touches the kernel on one of this machines. Jeff, David, James: can you please make a decision of who takes this and then just do it? Eike
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