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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:36:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: Linux 5.15-rc1
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc:     Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:33 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> OK, so this device is buggy too but not the root cause. After checking again the
> stalls happen for VPD access to both ports of the Intel network adapter.

I really don't want to add quirks like this.

If this happens to a major manufacturer (whoe _defined_ the PCI
standard, for chrissake), then this is not something where we want a
quirk to avoid a boot-time delay.

That commit needs to be reverted. If reverting it is hard, then we
need to revert everything it depends on.

              Linus