Karen,
It is a bug fix that affects MSI interrupts. Any kernel that is
accepting critical fixes should add the patch.
Thanks,
Ayaz
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Shaeffer [mailto:shaeffer@neuralscape.com]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 2:40 PM
To: Ayaz Abdulla
Cc: Andrew Morton; jgarzik@pobox.com; manfred@colorfullife.com;
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: msi interrupts
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:19:31PM -0700, Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
quoted text > Yes, that would be great!
Hi Ayaz,
How far back should it be back ported? Do you know?
Thanks,
Karen
quoted text >
> -----Original Message-----
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:15:32 -0400 Ayaz Abdulla
> > > <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>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
quoted text > > >>> > a
> race
> > >>> > condition in the HW in which future interrupts could be
missed.
quoted text > The
> > >>> > workaround is to toggle the MSI irq mask.
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>>Do you think this is a 2.6.26 thing?
> > >>
> > >>It is by HW design, not related to the kernel.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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