Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:49:03 -0800 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: RFC: PCI quirks update for 2.6.16 |
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 02:39:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> They should be safe, and OBVIOUS.
Well, it's not clear to me that reverting to a quirk the pokes *all* VIA pci devices on all machines is safe, it's not even clear if it was a good idea to merge this.
All the same, I can retest the latest 2.6.16.x with that change reverted but since it originally caused pain there has been a BIOS upgrade (or two, I forget) that might affect things (for many poeple the quirk isn't needed and CPI does the right thing).
> If there is a box that breaks with a 2.6.x.y release, then that .y > release was clearly a mistake, and fundamentally broke the whole > point of the 3Astable tree.
Well, I think the current 2.6.16.x release series is already broken on some other subset of hardware.
There might be more of those than there are with the quirk-me-hard approach --- in which case do we try to accommodate the (potential) majority with something that is clearly wrong or so we leave them broken for a bit longer until we can get some more coverage on Alan's much cleaner and specific fix which I think is slated for 2.6.20 and then backport that? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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