Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:00:18 +0300 | From | Ville Syrjälä <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.16 012/114] drm/i915: Exit cherryview_irq_handler() after one pass |
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 01:48:47PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 15:08 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:37:34PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 13:47 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 07:36:37PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > 3.16.36-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > > > > Do not backport this one. It'll break things. > > > > > > But this has not been re-reverted in mainline, has it? Is it that > > > 3.16-stable would need more changes backported to make this work, or is > > > mainline currently broken on Cherryview hardware? > > > > No, as of 4.7 we have a proper fix, but it's a bit too big to backport > > (see [1]). I think 4.6.x is still busted, but Greg said he'd revert > > this broken patch there, so it should get fixed eventually. > > > > OTOH CHV wasn't even officially supported until maybe 4.1, so whatever > > you do in 3.16 shouldn't really matter. > > OK, I've dropped this. > > > It's a bit tedious having to block the same patch from different stable > > trees over and over again. It would be nice it there would be some kind > > of stable blacklist you guys could share so that we wouldn't have to > > repeat this dance with every stable maintainer... > > Sorry about that; I do try to look for things like that on the stable > list but it's too high volume for me to keep up with most of the time.
I understand. Have the same problem myself often enough. Which is why I think a blacklist type of thing might be the better option. But maybe cc:stable mislabeling doesn't happen often enough to warrant it.
-- Ville Syrjälä Intel OTC
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