Re: [ 05/38] PCI: ignore pre-1.1 ASPM quirking when ASPM is disabled

[Jonathan Nieder]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:20:34AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:

>> The commit below is reported to crash the machine in the early init. See
>> the first reply to this message (lkml.org seems to be down right now):
>> lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/18/132
>
> Yes, but this patch fixes machines that others have been reporting
> problems with, so, what am I supposed to do?
>
> I'll stick with this patch for now, and hope that Matthew fixes this up
> in Linus's tree and I'll suck that fix in when it gets there.  Is that
> ok?

Just one data point from a distro perspective: regressions are way
more painful than problems that already existed.  So it seems worth
considering dropping the patch for now and grabbing the patch and fix
when ready.
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