linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] eisa, PCI: Fix bus res reference

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Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:16:05 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Whitehead <mwhitehe@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] eisa, PCI: Fix bus res reference

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>> Matthem found that 3.8.3 is having problems with an old (ancient)
>> PCI-to-EISA bridge, the Intel 82375. It worked with the 3.2 kernel.
>> He identified the 82375, but doesn't assign the struct resource *res
>> pointer inside the struct eisa_root_device, and panics.
>>
>> After looking at pci_eisa_init(), found it referring bus resource
>> directly instead of pci_bus_resource_n().
>>
>> After commit 45ca9e97 (PCI: add helpers for building PCI bus resource lists)
>> and commit 0efd5aab (PCI: add struct pci_host_bridge_window with CPU/bus
>> address offset), bus->resource[] is not used for pci root bus any more.
>>
>> Fix it by using pci_bus_resource_n() and correct idx for root bus.
>
> Please include URLs for the problem reports for these problems
> (bugzilla or mailing list discussion).

Matthew sent private mail to me, and I sent him test patch to see
if it fixes the problem. then I posted patches here after that.

>
>> Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <mwhitehe@...hat.com>
>> Tested-by: Matthew Whitehead <mwhitehe@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>> Cc: stable@...nel.org
>
> You are consistently using the wrong stable email address.  It should
> be "stable@...r.kernel.org".  I assume you see a bounce every time; at
> least, I get a bounce when I reply to your messages.

I thought that is tag only, and stable maintainer  will search that from
Linus's tree.
but git send-mail will pick up Cc from the patch.

So stable@...nel.org will never get fixed?

Yinghai
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