[GIT PULL 1/6] Broadcom soc changes for 4.10

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Dec 1 03:35:23 PST 2016


On Thursday, December 1, 2016 12:18:26 PM CET Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 2016-11-30 17:52, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday, November 21, 2016 9:48:19 PM CET Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> This pull request contains Broadcom ARM-based SoC changes for 4.10, 
> >> please pull
> >> the following:
> >> 
> >> - Rafal adds back the abort handler hook on BCM5301x which is required 
> >> to silence
> >>   errors forwared from the PCIe controller that cannot be silenced at 
> >> the PCIe RC level
> >> 
> > 
> > Pulled into next/soc.
> > 
> > It's unclear to me whether we want this to be backported to stable 
> > kernels,
> > can you clarify?
> 
> It took me/us so much time to get an agreement on this patch I totally 
> forgot
> about backporting it to stable.
> 
> To be clear it indeed fixes a regression. Commit 937b12306ea79 ("ARM: 
> BCM5301X:
> remove workaround imprecise abort fault handler") went into 4.5, so this 
> one
> could be backported to 4.5+.
> 
> As this has been already pulled, I think I'll wait for it to appear in 
> Linus's
> tree and just e-mail stable guys manually (unless someone objects). 
> Thanks for
> bringing my attention to this.

Ok, sounds good. Thanks!

	Arnd



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