linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI

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Message-ID: <20080715093527.GB2297@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:35:28 +0200
From:	Olaf Dabrunz <od@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ihno Krumreich <ihno@...e.de>,
	Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@...e.de>,
	Daniel Gollub <dgollub@...e.de>,
	Felix Foerster <ffoerster@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI

On 14-Jul-08, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Olaf Dabrunz <od@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 14-Jul-08, Olaf Dabrunz wrote:
> > > I am working on a consolidated patch set for AKMP. It integrates all
> > > fixes and adds a config option CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
> > > (prepared by Stefan Assmann), which can default to off for vanilla and to
> > > on for RT / threaded IRQ handling. This means that the whole patchset
> > > can (in principle) be applied to vanilla and RT without change. Also
> > > CONFIG_PREEMPT_HARDIRQ can "select CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS".
> > > 
> > > If you don't mind, I will send the full set out today.
> > 
> > On second thought and after talking to Stefan, as you think the 
> > patches can go into 2.6.27 as they are, there is not much benefit in 
> > integrating the fixes and the config option patch. Stefan will commit 
> > the config option patch to tip tomorrow.
> 
> please do not rebase the patchset, that causes us lose the testing 
> status, we lose the sha1's of the commits, etc. Lets keep what we have 
> in tip/x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks and do append-only fixlets to it.

Right.

Thanks,

-- 
Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz), SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nürnberg

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