Re: [stable][PATCH] pci: quirk disable MSI on via vt3351

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:01:04PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> 
> The Via VT3351 APIC does not play well with MSI and unleashes a flood
> of APIC errors when MSI is used to deliver interrupts.  The problem
> was recently exposed when the atl1 network device driver, which enables
> MSI by default, stimulated APIC errors on an Asus M2V mainboard, which
> employs the Via VT3351.
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8472 for additional
> details on this bug.
>...

Please get patches included in Linus' tree _before_ submitting them for 
-stable.

Adding a fix to 2.6.21 that is not yet in 2.6.22-rc would create a 
regression in 2.6.22.

cu
Adrian

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