linux-kernel - Re: stable-3.1: iwlwifi broken with nomsi

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Message-ID: <1322865584.13074.29.camel@wwguy-huron>
Date:	Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:39:44 -0800
From:	"Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Johan Hovold <jhovold@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stable-3.1: iwlwifi broken with nomsi

Hi Greg,

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 15:32 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:28:42PM -0800, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 15:18 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:59:39PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > > Hi Greg, 
> > > > 
> > > > I believe commit 63665158282dd3b5d70 (iwlwifi: allow pci_enable_msi fail)
> > > > needs to be added to the 3.1 stable tree as the driver fails to probe
> > > > with MSI disabled since commit 084dd79172cb3 (iwlagn: move PCI related
> > > > operations from probe and remove to PCI layer) without it:
> > > 
> > > I do not see commit 63665158282dd3b5d70 in Linus's tree, did you get it
> > > incorrect?
> > > 
> > > confused,
> > > 
> > it is commit#8a39ef8ba0fa0410d71db8e981e887fe4fdeca88 in Linville's
> > wireless tree
> 
> How nice, and what exactly can I do with that at this point in time?
> 
Can I send the patch to you for stable 3.1?

> 
> Come on, please go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt again for
> how to do this properly...
> 

Sorry, my mistake and did not realize the offending patch is in 3.1
already.

Wey




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