Re: [1/2] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:18:07 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:34:18 +0200
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Good to hear!  I forgot the patch description and sign-off, so here it
> > is again:
> > 
> > 
> > [PATCH] ALSA: intel8x0 - Fix Oops in crash kernel
> > 
> > When intel8x0 driver is loaded in the crash kernel, it gets Oops
> > occasionally.  This is because the irq handler gets called before
> > the proper hardware initialization.  Now defer it after
> > snd_intel8x0_chip_init().
> 
> Neat, thanks.
> 
> Do we think this is safe enough and important enough for 2.6.21?
> And if so, do you want me to merge it?

It should be safe (as I already merged ALSA tree for 2.6.22), but I'd
like to test the following before merging 2.6.21:
- suspend/resume works
- no severe problem even if request_irq() fails
I'll check this in this weekend, so let's hold on.


Takashi
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