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 23:20:20 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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 Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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.

I was rather thinking of putting it into -mm for some time and target for
2.6.25 if possible.

If it breaks systems, we can always revert before 2.6.25 final.

Thanks,
Rafael
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