netdev - Re: [patch] genirq: fix simple and fasteoi irq handlers

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Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:57:00 +0200
From:	"Marcin Ślusarz" <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	"Jarek Poplawski" <jarkao2@...pl>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Gabriel C" <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Jean-Baptiste Vignaud" <vignaud@...dmail.fr>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	shemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-net <linux-net@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] genirq: fix simple and fasteoi irq handlers

2007/8/3, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:04:08AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> wrote:
> >
> > > I can't guarantee this is all needed to fix this bug, but I think this
> > > patch is necessary here.
> >
> > hmmm ... very interesting! Now _this_ is something we'd like to see
> > tested. Could you send a patch to Marcin that also undoes the workaround
> > we have in place now, so that he could check whether ne2k-pci works fine
> > with your fix alone?
>
> I'm not sure this is needed... Marcin got this patch, I hope, and I
> don't have another possibility to contact with him. Since he managed
> with this bisection and all the previous patches I don't think there
> could be any problems, so:
>
> Marcin! I'd be very glad if you could test this patch alone; this
> should apply without any problems to 2.6.21 (with some offset) and
> later "vanilla" versions (or try to revert Ingo's last patch with
> patch -p1 -R). Please, contact me on any problems (alas not during
> the weekend...).

I'll test this patch tomorrow (and confirm that the last one from Ingo
works fine) and report results on monday (sorry, no internet at home
since I moved out of city :|).

Marcin
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