linux-kernel - Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

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Date:	Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:00:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4
 suspend-to-RAM



On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> The patch is fine by me, so if anyone has objections, please speak up.

There is absolutely *no* way I will apply this in an -rc6 release.

The number of machines this will break is totally unknown. It might be 
zero. It might be hundreds.  We just don't know. We might hit another 
unlucky allocation that we just happened to avoid before.

		Linus
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