On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:32:00PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:10 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> 
> Please, do *not* send this patch (or the rest of the series) to
> anything pre-3.3. It's 3.3 only, since people were seeing regressions
> due to a 3.3-rc patch. This went to stable because we were to late for
> the 3.3 release.
> 
> > --- a/drivers/ata/libahci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
> > @@ -748,6 +749,10 @@ static void ahci_start_port(struct ata_p
> >        /* enable DMA */
> >        ahci_start_engine(ap);
> >
> > +       /* enable DMA */
> > +       if (!(hpriv->flags & AHCI_HFLAG_DELAY_ENGINE))
> > +               ahci_start_engine(ap);
> 
> (BTW, this is a bad backporting of the patch; you can see that this
> might call start_engine() twice, whereas the original patch called it
> at most once)
> 
> So to reiterate, do not apply this patch or the rest of its series to
> 3.0 or 3.2. It should have been tagged 'Cc: <[email protected]>
> [3.3]' or something like that. I'll post a quick reply to the other
> patches to make sure you can catch all the right ones.

Now dropped, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h
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