linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2] pci: Check bridge resources after resource allocation.

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Message-ID: <20110512123412.64e9b4cc@jbarnes-desktop>
Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 12:34:12 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] pci: Check bridge resources after resource
 allocation.

On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:18:43 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> >
> > Linus, I don't have anything else queued up, so you may as well take
> > this one directly if you want it in 2.6.39.  It's a regression fix, but
> > resource changes always make me nervous.  Alternately, I could put it
> > into 2.6.40 instead, the backport to 2.6.39.x if it survives until
> > 2.6.40-rc2 or so...
> 
> Considering the trouble resource allocation always ends up being, I'd
> almost prefer that "mark it for stable and put it in the 2.6.40
> queue".
> 
> Afaik this problem hasn't actually hit any "normal" users, has it? So ...

Sounds good, thanks.  Yeah I don't think it's hit anyone but Yinghai
(at least I don't know of any other reports).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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