Re: [stable] [PATCH v2 0/4] PCI: allocate space top-down, notbottom-up

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Fri Sep 24 2010 - 20:52:46 EST


On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:40:20 -0700
Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:41:39PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Added cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> > See:
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/189182/
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/189232/
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/189242/
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/189252/
>
> Um, why would -stable want them if they aren't in Linus's tree yet?
> Please, when they are in his tree, _AND_ have gotten a lot of testing,
> then email the git commit ids of what you want added to the stable tree
> to stable@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Doing it beforehand like this is a sure way to cause me a lot of work
> and the patches to be lost.

Yeah sorry. They're queued up in a special branch atm, but will be
part of my initial 2.6.37 merge request pull. They're not going into
2.6.36 because they're a bit too invasive for this late in the process.

I don't *think* they'll cause problems (ultimately they should make us
behave a bit more like Windows as far as resource allocation goes) so
hopefully a merge into stable sometime after the 2.6.37 merge window
closes won't be a problem, but you probably don't have a nice way of
automating that...

Thanks,
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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