linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci quirks: Sort out the VIA mess once and for all (hopefully)

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Message-Id: <1163035093.13988.9.camel@monteirov>
Date:	Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:18:13 +0000
From:	Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci quirks: Sort out the VIA mess once and for
	all	(hopefully)

First a salute to subject :) I hope so!

I will try the patch on my old laptop, which need the quirks, soon as
possible but I don't know if can be in this month.

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 20:39 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> I think your patch is going to break stuff, without the patch will
> break more, 

My point of view is: The stuff was already breaked in kernels before
2.6.16. And the patch is a improvement from kernel 2.6.16. Not perfect,
we now.

> and hopefully this patch will not break anything - but there is risk.
> I think it's up to Linus what he wants to do for .19 

yap, it a risk because, drivers team tend to workaround the problems and
when we change IRQ routing, in this case correctly, workaround may blow
it.

Thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M.B.

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