[PATCH 1/2] ARM: mvebu: second PCIe unit of Armada XP mv78230 is only x1 capable

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 6 13:20:43 EST 2013


Dear Jason Cooper,

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 13:12:41 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:

> > > However, while the PCIe DT stuff was merged in 3.10, the actual driver
> > > itself was only merged in 3.11, so in 3.10, there is no chance to hit
> > > the bug.
> > >
> > > Therefore, having this fix pushed to the stable 3.11.x and 3.12.x trees
> > > would be good.
> 
> oops, I forgot to reply to this.  I disagree here.  We shouldn't assume
> that the dts file used will be from the same commit and the kernel
> built.  Additionally, it doesn't hurt to backport the change the whole
> way.

Well, I believe anyone trying to use mvebu .dts from one kernel version
with a kernel image of another version will hit numerous problems. But
ok, in principle I agree with you :)

Thomas
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