Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH] correct pciehp init recovery

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 09.05.06 09:49 >>>
>"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >>> Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> 28.04.06 19:38 >>>
>> >On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:59 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> Clean up the recovery path from errors during pcie_init().
>> >> 
>> >It's possible that this driver never actually requested an irq if was in
>> >poll mode.  Then you will call free_irq, when what you really want to do
>> >is kill the timer that may have been started. 
>> 
>> Thanks for pointing this out, here's the updated patch:
>> 
>> Clean up the recovery path from errors during pcie_init().
>> 
>
>Well, it does more than clean things up.  It fixes bugs.
>
>Could we have a more accurate and complete changelog please?

Clean up (fix) the recovery path from errors during pcie_init() by properly
undoing any initialization steps already carried out.

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