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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:26:10 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> At Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:18:07 -0700,
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:34:18 +0200
> > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 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.

Both seem OK as far as I tested.

So, feel free to push it to 2.6.21 if it's still allowed.
Otherwise I'll queue it up to stable tree later.


Thanks,

Takashi
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