Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:28:07 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RapidIO: Fix use of non-compatible registers |
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:07:26 -0400 Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> wrote:
> Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not forward-compatible > with newer versions of RapidIO specification. > > RapidIO specification v. 1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR, > Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> > Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> > Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> > Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> > Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> > Cc: Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt.com> > Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
You did a cc:stable but provided no reason (that I can understand) for backporting the patch. Please explain why the problem is sufficiently serious to warrant this action.
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