Yes, that would be great!

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From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 2:11 PM
To: Ayaz Abdulla
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com; manfred@colorfullife.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: msi interrupts


On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:04:05 -0400
Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:

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> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:15:32 -0400
> > Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > 
> >>Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:51:46 -0400
> >>>Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > This patch adds a workaround for lost MSI interrupts. There is a
race
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> >>> > condition in the HW in which future interrupts could be missed.
The
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> >>> > workaround is to toggle the MSI irq mask.
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> >>>Do you think this is a 2.6.26 thing?
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> >>It is by HW design, not related to the kernel.
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> > 
> > Sorry, what I meant was: do you believe that this patch should be in
> > 2.6.26?
> Yes, it should be treated as a critical fix.

So should it also be backported into 2.6.25.x?

Bear in mind that $major_distros are apparently basing product on
2.6.25.
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