linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX] ACPI, APEI, Avoid too much error reporting in runtime

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Message-ID: <1339421127.4942.8.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:25:27 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX] ACPI, APEI, Avoid too much error reporting in runtime

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:23 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> This patch fixed the following bug.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282
> 
> This is caused by a firmware bug checking (checking generic address
> register provided by firmware) in runtime.  The checking should be
> done in address mapping time instead of runtime to avoid too much
> error reporting in runtime.
> 
> Reported-by: Pawel Sikora <pluto@...k.net>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
[...]

This is not the correct way to submit a patch for stable.  See
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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