From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mingo@redhat.com, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:21:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108202105.GB6167@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18xgdijmb.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> To a large extent this reverts b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
> while still keeping to the spirits of it's goal, the ability to
> make smart guesses about how the timer irq is routed when the BIOS
> gets it wrong.
>...
That's code where every changed line has a great potential of causing a
different kind of breakage on someone else's computer.
Your comment therefore translates to "revert commit
b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77 for 2.6.20 and try to find a
better solution for 2.6.21".
cu
Adrian
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-08 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-01-03 6:23 ` 2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions - x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work" Yinghai Lu
2007-01-08 0:55 ` Tobias Diedrich
2007-01-08 1:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86_64 io_apic: Implement remove_pin_to_irq Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 15:53 ` PATCH 2/4] x86_64 io_apic: Implement irq_from_pin Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 15:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86_64 io_apic: Implment update_irq0_entry Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 16:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 20:21 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-01-08 21:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 22:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-08 23:14 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2007-01-08 23:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 23:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-09 22:00 ` Tobias Diedrich
2007-01-08 17:16 Lu, Yinghai
2007-01-08 20:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-08 17:41 Lu, Yinghai
2007-01-08 20:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 20:53 Lu, Yinghai
2007-01-08 21:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-09 22:15 Lu, Yinghai
2007-01-10 10:30 ` Tobias Diedrich
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