linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3 0/4] x86, usb, pci: Disable usb legacy support early

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Message-ID: <20110111010739.GC32585@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:07:39 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 0/4] x86, usb, pci: Disable usb legacy support early

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 04:49:02PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> Move quirks for usb handoff early for x86.
> 
> So we can get stable result when trying to calibrate apic timer with pm-timer.

I still fail to understand _why_ you are making these changes.

Exactly what problem do you currently have, on what hardware, that this
patch set solves?

confused,

greg k-h
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