linux-kernel - Re: [NEW PATCH] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change

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Message-ID: <44FF5E90.9030808@gentoo.org>
Date:	Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:49:36 -0400
From:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
To:	Stian Jordet <liste@...det.net>, sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org
CC:	akpm@...l.org, jeff@...zik.org, greg@...ah.com, cw@...f.org,
	bjorn.helgaas@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, harmon@....edu, len.brown@...el.com,
	vsu@...linux.ru
Subject: Re: [NEW PATCH] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change

Stian Jordet wrote:
> On man, 2006-09-04 at 22:39 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> Stian Jordet wrote:
>>> Daniel Drake wrote:
>>>> Stian Jordet: You're on CC due to a discussion linked to from above where
>>>> it appeared that you needed Bjorn's patch. Please test this patch against
>>>> unmodified 2.6.17 or 2.6.18-rc and let us know if there are any problems.
>>>>
>>> No more usb for me with this patch :P
>> Please send dmesg from both a working kernel and a patched kernel, and 
>> /proc/interrupts from both too.
> 
> Here dmesg and /proc/interrupts with and without the patch. Both are
> 2.6.18-rc6...

Sergio,

Stian appears to be walking proof that quirks are sometimes required in 
IO-APIC mode.

My next move would be to modify the patch to not revert Bjorn's changes 
(but leave Linus' modification in place, alongside the southbridge 
detection). Any thoughts?

Daniel

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