From: Wei Wang2 <wei.wang2@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] AMD IOMMU: bug fixes
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:54:20 +0100
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Keir,
The reason I suggested to backport is that xen3.3 provides complete amd
iommu support already and as AMD will release iommu in the future, if
people still use xen3.3 at that time, it would be better to have this
fix. Actually, this fix only affects amd iommu portion, the backport
effort should be very little and I would not think it will break
stability of xen33. 

Thanks,
-Wei

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 15:31 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 03/12/2008 15:18, "Wei Wang2" <wei.wang2@amd.com> wrote:
> 
> > The following 3 patches fix minor bugs for amd iommu, please apply them
> > to both xen-3.3-testing and xen-unstable.
> 
> Why would I backport to a stable branch support for hardware which doesn't
> yet exist?
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> 
>