From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>,
Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>,
Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] PNPACPI: ignore the producer/consumer bit for extended IRQ descriptors
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:56:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808250856.01302.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825101543.GC26610@one.firstfloor.org>
On Monday 25 August 2008 04:15:43 am Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:47:17AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > The Extended Interrupt descriptor has a producer/consumer bit, but
> > it's not clear what that would mean, and existing BIOSes use the bit
> > inconsistently. This patch makes Linux PNPACPI ignore the bit.
>
> Added thanks. Will put in the next 2.6.27 update.
This doesn't need to go in 2.6.27 (at least, I can't think of
anything it will fix there). This is more in the category of
paving the way for future changes.
Bjorn
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 15:47 [patch] PNPACPI: ignore the producer/consumer bit for extended IRQ descriptors Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-25 10:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-25 14:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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