Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3)

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:00:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:49:56 -0700
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > > Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Did we end up deciding whether this is (needed*safe) enough for 2.6.21?
> > 
> > I say no for now, I have seen no bug reports for any hardware that is
> > not in a lab for this.
> 
> Well.  Presumably that hardware will be in the field during the lifetime of
> 2.6.21-based kernels.
> 
> Perhaps we should put this into 2.6.22 then backport it to 2.6.21.x once it
> seems safe to do so.  If we decide to go this way, we'll need to ask Mitch
> to remind us to do the backport at the appropriate time, else we'll surely
> forget.

Yes, that's what I just asked him to do a message ago :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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