linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (pmbus_core) Check adapter PEC support

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Message-ID: <4ea0c5b7-3ccd-d6a1-c7a5-edd7034e6522@molgen.mpg.de>
Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 16:58:58 +0100
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Madhava Reddy Siddareddygari <msiddare@...co.com>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (pmbus_core) Check adapter PEC support

Dear Guenter,


Am 06.06.21 um 14:50 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:27:02AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> From: Madhava Reddy Siddareddygari <msiddare@...co.com>
>>
>> Currently, for Packet Error Checking (PEC) only the controller
>> is checked for support. This causes problems on the cisco-8000
>> platform where a SMBUS transaction errors are observed. This is
>> because PEC has to be enabled only if both controller and
>> adapter support it.
>>
>> Added code to check PEC capability for adapter and enable it
>> only if both controller and adapter supports PEC.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Madhava Reddy Siddareddygari <msiddare@...co.com>
>> [Upstream from SONiC https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/215]
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
> 
> Applied.

Thank you very much. Would it be alright, if I asked the stable series 
maintainers to backport this patch to the Linux 5.10 LTS series?


Kind regards,

Paul