From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt•com>
Cc: Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt•com>,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo•com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, stable@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RapidIO: Fix use of non-compatible registers
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:28:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822122807.5b558d65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311703646-3453-1-git-send-email-alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-22 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 18:07 [PATCH] RapidIO: Fix use of non-compatible registers Alexandre Bounine
2011-08-22 19:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-08-23 12:55 ` Bounine, Alexandre
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