Bug#650119: fails to boot on HP DL380 g4

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:58:43PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Stephen, once it hits mainline, would 6225da481597 be a candidate for
>> the current-maintained stable trees >= 2.6.36, or does it have any
>> prerequisites or followups that should go with it?
>
> <formletter>
>
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> for how to do this properly.

I thought step 1 in the right way was for the patch to hit mainline. :)

The patch:

 - is obviously correct and tested against 3.1.y
 - is very short
 - fixes only one thing
 - fixes a real bug that bothered people (boot failure)
 - also removes the deprecated IRQF_DISABLED flag; I'd be happy to undo
   that part and get another round of testing before sending it to you
 - would obviously follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules when
   sending it to you
 - does *not* yet have an analog in linus's tree.  BTW, I'm not sure
   why this isn't in Jens's for-linus branch.