* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:21:40PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> Jesse or Matthew, can you pick this patch? > > > > Having reviewed it in light of HPA's comment, I don't have a problem > > with it: > > > > Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > However, I don't think it's my place to take this patch while Jesse is > > away; it doesn't feel like it's needed to be submitted between -rc7 and > > 2.6.29. Do you have a reason that it needs to be merged more urgently > > than 2.6.30-rc1? > > > > I didn't see one... I was assuming it was a submission to be > pushed upstream during the merge window. > > It doesn't fix a regression, so it doesn't seem to me to be a > case for a late -rc merge. It's hardware enablement, so it > *might* qualify for 2.6.29-stable, as far as I understand Greg > and Chris' policies. Yeah. The patch is replacing a slowly-but-surely-bitrotting and always-behind quirk table with a more generic approach/workaround. So there's no regression technically - but non-fully-working cards are obviously quite annoying on new systems. So i'd suggest a .30 merge with a Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> tag. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
