Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:26:37 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: don't exclude low BIOS area when allocating address space for non-PCI cards |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Christoph Schulz <develop@kristov.de> wrote: > Hello! > > Bjorn Helgaas schrieb am Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:00:21 -0600: > > >> I applied this to pci/misc for v3.17, thanks. > > > Thank you very much. What do you think about queuing it up to -stable? > Commit 30919b0bf356 is in the tree since 2.6.37-rc7. We have used the > proposed patch for over a year (since 3.2.42 / 3.7.10 / 3.8.5, to be exact) > without any regressions. I *think* it meets the criteria for -stable, but I > don't have much experience of Linux kernel development processes, so it's > your decision, of course.
Good point, I added:
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.37+
>> This effectively reverts 30919b0bf356 ("x86: avoid low BIOS area when >> allocating address space"). I don't see a reference there to a bug >> fixed by 30919b0bf356, so hopefully reverting it won't reintroduce a >> bug. > > > Well, for PCI, the current behaviour does not change effectively, and for > ISA, the proposed patch fixes a bug. What memory allocations beyond ISA and > PCI could be adversely affected?
There aren't very many, I guess, but I don't want to build things on the assumption that ISA and PCI are the only possibilities. ISA was once the only possibility :)
Bjorn
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