linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [patch 44/45] PCI: Unhide the SMBus on the Compaq Evo D510 USDT

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Message-ID: <20090917150917.3d7d28b8@hyperion.delvare>
Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:09:17 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>, stable@...nel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 44/45] PCI: Unhide the SMBus on the Compaq Evo
  D510 USDT

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:38:53 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:58:23AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:36:57 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 2.6.31-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > From: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
> > > 
> > > commit 6b5096e4d4496e185cd1ada5d1b8e1d941c805ed upstream.
> > > 
> > > One more form factor for Compaq Evo D510, which needs the same quirk
> > > as the other form factors. Apparently there's no hardware monitoring
> > > chip on that one, but SPD EEPROMs, so it's still worth unhiding the
> > > SMBus.
> > 
> > FWIW, this one doesn't strike me as being needed in -stable. While it
> > should be safe (otherwise it wouldn't have gone upstream in the first
> > place), it hardly fulfills -stable's requirement that "it must fix a
> > real bug that bothers people". There's no hardware monitoring chip on
> > the SMBus on this machine, and people can easily live without detailed
> > memory module information.
> > 
> > So it's up to you, but I won't cry if you drop this patch from -stable.
> 
> Heh, you were the one that originally cc:ed the patch to
> stable@...nel.org, so I figured you wanted it in.

That would be the other me then. Because the first me just double
checked that he hadn't Cc'd stable@...nel.org on this one patch ;)

> Quirks like this are simple to add, I have no problem taking it, so
> might as well leave it.

Up to you, I don't care either way.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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