Re: Patch "rt2800pci: handle spurious interrupts" has been added to the 3.1-stable tree

From: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Date: Fri Dec 02 2011 - 21:50:39 EST


Hi

On Saturday 03 December 2011, gregkh@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> rt2800pci: handle spurious interrupts
>
> to the 3.1-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> rt2800pci-handle-spurious-interrupts.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.1 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>
>
> From 4ba7d9997869d25bd223dea7536fc1ce9fab3b3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:09:17 +0100
> Subject: rt2800pci: handle spurious interrupts
[...]

This patch has been reverted again, due to
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/127153/

commit 82e5fc2a34fa9ffea38f00c4066b7e600a0ca5e6
Author: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 22 16:38:19 2011 -0500

Revert "rt2800pci: handle spurious interrupts"

This reverts commit 4ba7d9997869d25bd223dea7536fc1ce9fab3b3b.

The original patch was a misguided attempt to improve performance on
some hardware that is apparently prone to spurious interrupt generation.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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