linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RapidIO: Fix default routing initialization

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Date:	Wed, 11 May 2011 13:00:24 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>,
	Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@...go.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RapidIO: Fix default routing initialization

On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:46:03 -0400
Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com> wrote:

> Fix switch initialization to ensure that all switches have default
> routing disabled. This guarantees that no unexpected RapidIO packets
> arrive to the default port set by reset and there is no default routing
> destination until it is properly configured by software.
> 
> This update also unifies handling of unmapped destinations by tsi57x,
> IDT Gen1 and IDT Gen2 switches.

The changelog doesn't permit me to determine the importance of this fix,
so I don't know whether to schedule it for 2.6.39 or for -stable.

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