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

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Message-ID: <1339470490.7404.34.camel@yhuang-dev>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:08:10 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
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 14:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for reminding.  Will resend the patch.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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