Patch "rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts" has been added to the 3.1-stable tree

DISCUSSION Stefan Lippers-Hollmann 2 participants 2 messages Dec 3, 2011 – Dec 5, 2011 1 message not in the archive Stable branch

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2011-12-03 02:52 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 12 lines · On Saturday 03 December 2011, [email protected] wrote:

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts
to the 3.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rt2x00-handle-spurious-pci-interrupts.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.1 subdirectory.

Quoted 8 lines

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
From 23085d5796561625db4143a671f1de081f66ef08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:58:42 +0100
Subject: rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts

[...]

This patch has been reverted again, due to
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/127153/
(this also applies to the 2.6.32 backport)

commit 6cccccafe9e8b88adb1800940ded6ad76c587e1b

Author: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 22 16:36:35 2011 -0500

Revert "rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts"

This reverts commit 23085d5796561625db4143a671f1de081f66ef08.

The original patch was a misguided attempt to improve performance on some hardware that is apparently prone to spurious interrupt generation.

Signed-off-by John W. Linville <[email protected]>

Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

Greg KH

2011-12-05 21:01 UTC #2 lore raw

Quoted 23 lines · Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

Hi
Quoted 12 lines · On Saturday 03 December 2011, [email protected] wrote:
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts
to the 3.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rt2x00-handle-spurious-pci-interrupts.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.1 subdirectory.
Quoted 8 lines
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
From 23085d5796561625db4143a671f1de081f66ef08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:58:42 +0100
Subject: rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts

Quoted 5 lines

[...]
This patch has been reverted again, due to
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/127153/
(this also applies to the 2.6.32 backport)

Thanks for letting me know, I've now reverted it from all stable trees

greg k-h