Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:52:39 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] eisa, PCI: init eisa early before pnp step in |
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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote: >>> >> Is this a regression? This must have worked at one time, but it seems >> >> like we've had pnpacpi_init/isapnp_init/pnpbios_init before PCI >> >> drivers for quite a while. >> > >> > Yes. >> >> Do you know when the regression occurred? If you do, I'll add that >> info to the "stable" tag. > > No, I don't. > > Looking at the current code, it should be quite before kernel was using git. > as first drivers/Makefile in git already has pnp before eisa. > > Do we need to dig before 2.6.12 and 2.4?
No, I don't think we need to worry about fixing kernels that old.
But I do wonder whether we fully understand the cause. I know EISA is old and obsolete, but it's a little hard to believe that it's been broken since 2.6.12 and nobody noticed.
Bjorn
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