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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Update MCP55 quirk to not affect non HyperTransport variants
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:40:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:47:48 -0500
> Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> > I wrote this quirk awhile ago to properly setup MCP55 chips on hypertransport
> > busses so that interrupts reached whatever cpu happend to boot the kdump kernel.
> > while that works well, it was recently shown to me that a a non-hypertransport
> > variant of the MCP55 exists, and on those system the register that this quirk
> > manipulates causes hangs if you write to it. Since the quirk was only meant to
> > handle errors found on MCP55 chips that have a HT interface, this patch adds a
> > filter to make sure the chip is an HT capable before making the needed register
> > adjustment. This lets the broken MCP55s work with kdump while not breaking the
> > non-HT variants.
> >
> > Resolves https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23952
> >
> > Tested successfully by the reporter and myself.
> >
> > Reported-by: Mathieu B__rard <mathieu@mberard.eu>
> > CC: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
> > CC: kexec@lists.infradead.org
> > CC: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> > CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
>
> That needed a Cc:<stable@kernel.org> as well. Please don't forget to
> remember -stable.
Thanks, Cc'ing stable on the thread

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