Re: [PATCH] rtsx: pci: fix device aspm state bug

From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Jan 21 2021 - 03:29:34 EST


On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 08:15:46AM +0000, 吳昊澄 Ricky wrote:
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtsx: pci: fix device aspm state bug
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 07:33:03AM +0000, 吳昊澄 Ricky wrote:
> > > Hi Greg kh,
> > >
> > > This patch to fix misc: rtsx bug for kernel 5.4
> >
> > I do not understand what this means, sorry. Can you please explain it?
> >
> On the newest upstream we don’t set config space for en/disable aspm,
> so it will not happen this issue
> but on kernel 5.4 longterm version we need to fix it

Please read
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to submit patches to the stable tree properly.

And if this is not an issue in Linus's tree, why not just backport the
commits that fixed this issue? That's the best way to do this.

thanks,

greg k-h