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

From: Huang Ying
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 23:08:06 EST


On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for reminding. Will resend the patch.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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