Re: [BUGFIX] ACPI, APEI, Avoid too much error reporting in runtime

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:23 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> This patch fixed the following bug.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282
> 
> This is caused by a firmware bug checking (checking generic address
> register provided by firmware) in runtime.  The checking should be
> done in address mapping time instead of runtime to avoid too much
> error reporting in runtime.
> 
> Reported-by: Pawel Sikora <pluto@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]

This is not the correct way to submit a patch for stable.  See
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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