linux-kernel - Re: [ 67/89] drm/radeon: properly track the crtc not_enabled case evergreen_mc

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Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 09:35:04 -0500
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	"Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ 67/89] drm/radeon: properly track the crtc not_enabled case evergreen_mc_stop()

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Deucher, Alexander
<Alexander.Deucher@....com> wrote:
>> > The original patches should go into 3.6 kernels as well:
>> >
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=4
>> a15903db02026728d0cf2755c6fabae16b8db6a
>> >
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=6
>> 2444b7462a2b98bc78d68736c03a7c4e66ba7e2
>> >
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=8
>> 04cc4a0ad3a896ca295f771a28c6eb36ced7903
>> >
>> > I've been meaning to follow up on it, but I haven't had the time.  Do I need
>> to send explicit patches to stable@...r or can I just ask the above commits
>> be cherrypicked to 3.6?
>> >
>>
>> Normally the CC tag works.  Not entirely sure why it didn't for the one
>> patch I asked about.  The other two commits you've highlighted here are
>> lacking any sort of stable tag, so you'd have to pipe up here about them.
>
> The patches were not initially a bug fix per se, so I didn't cc stable.  It was only later that I got reports of the patches fixing issues for some people. Normally I add the stable cc if the patch is a bug fix.
>
>>
>> I went ahead and tried the cherry-pick myself on top of 3.6.9, in the
>> order you specified above.  The 62444b7462a has a trivial conflict coming
>> back.  I've attached an mbox with these three patches.  If you want to
>> give them a glance over and OK them, that would be great.
>
> They look good to me.  Thanks!
>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>

Thanks Alex.

We've had a couple of users successfully test a kernel with these 3
patches applied for rhbz 855275.

Greg, is the mbox enough or would you like me to send them separately
to the list?

josh
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