On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 01:30:51PM -0300, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote: > On 06/06/2013 08:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:20:06PM -0300, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote: > >>This patch series contains some patches needed to support > >>radeon graphics cards on ppc64/pseries systems. > > > >This is a new feature, so why should it be included in the stable kernel > >series? Can't you just wait for 3.10? > > > >thanks, > > > >greg k-h > > > > Greg, > > I think my request wasn't descriptive enough, so let me rephrase it. > > These changes aren't actually for a new feature, they fix some > problems found during tests of a Radeon adapter on ppc64/pseries > system. > > commit 88e7b167a079f090405ab4390b629b5effdab41a upstream. > (1/6: pci: Set dev->dev.type in alloc_pci_dev) > commit c2e1d84523ad2a19e5be08c1f01999cc9e82652e upstream. > (2/6: powerpc: Set default VGA device) > > The above patches are necessary to have X to use the adapter with > autoconfiguration. > > commit e61133dda480062d221f09e4fc18f66763f8ecd0 upstream. > (3/6: powerpc/pseries: Force 32 bit MSIs for devices that require it) > commit f1dd153121dcb872ae6cba8d52bec97519eb7d97 upstream. > (4/6: powerpc/pseries: Make 32-bit MSI quirk work on systems lacking > firmware support) > > The above patches fix EEH errors when the adapter tries to set up the MSI's. > > commit d82fb31abc46620b7c22758c75707069f2763646 upstream. > (5/6: powerpc/pseries: Perform proper max_bus_speed detection) > commit 7e0e41963740525af702bb23edede8ae9afc4ac0 upstream. > (6/6: radeon: use max_bus_speed to activate gen2 speeds) > > The above patches fix the kernel oops that is triggered when the > adapter tries to force PCI-E Gen2 speeds. > > The last four patches fix problems that make the radeon adapters not > usable at all on ppc64/pseries with kernels before 3.10, so these > are the more critical ones. If you think the first two are not > critical enough for the stable releases, we would be more than happy > with only the last four. Sounds good, I've applied all of them, thanks for the explaination. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html