Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:04:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rapidio: apply RX/TX enable to active switch ports only |
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:23:55 -0400 Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> wrote:
> Modify RIO enumeration to apply RX/TX enable operations only to active > switch ports. This will leave inactive ports in condition consistent with > their state.
It's unclear (to me) what the effects of this are. Does it fix some user-visible malfunction? Or is it just some nice-to-have thing? Or what?
> This patch is applicable to kernel versions starting from v2.6.35.
Is that a recommendation that such a backport be performed? If so, please provide the reasoning.
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