Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:04:16 -0500 | From | Jonathan Nieder <> | Subject | Re: [ 05/38] PCI: ignore pre-1.1 ASPM quirking when ASPM is disabled |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:20:34AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> The commit below is reported to crash the machine in the early init. See >> the first reply to this message (lkml.org seems to be down right now): >> lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/18/132 > > Yes, but this patch fixes machines that others have been reporting > problems with, so, what am I supposed to do? > > I'll stick with this patch for now, and hope that Matthew fixes this up > in Linus's tree and I'll suck that fix in when it gets there. Is that > ok?
Just one data point from a distro perspective: regressions are way more painful than problems that already existed. So it seems worth considering dropping the patch for now and grabbing the patch and fix when ready.
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