Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:36:40PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release.
> > 
> > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so
> > if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that tree,
> > please let me know.
> 
> There is one here: "Missing critical phys_to_virt in lib/swiotlb.c".
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/4/116
> It fixes a DMA related bug which was seen with a variety of drivers
> especially on EM64T machines with more than 3GB RAM. I hope you can
> extract the patch from this MIME attachment.
> 
> Adrian, AFAICS it applies as-is to 2.6.16.y too. I don't have a machine
> to test personally, but it is quite obvious.

Thanks.

It applies fine and it's now in my tree.

> The mentioned bigger patch has been merged by Linus between 2.6.20 and
> 2.6.21-rc1.


cu
Adrian

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