Re: [PATCH] IRQ params patch#4

[Rob North <tzwvgwv2001-O/bDAPVd7B0N+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>]

Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> OK, patch#3 is way too strict... thought a bit more about it, and I suppose 
> the BIOS not allocating some devices an IRQ is actually OK....
> 
> Anyway, patch#4 now just warns the user if an attempt to set an IRQ results in 
> a different IRQ than expected, and attempts to abort ACPI irq routing. 
> Unfortunately, it isn't able to undo the changes it has made to the routing 
> as it would have to call the _SRS method to do it... and its just found out 
> that that is buggy. So at the moment it probably won't be able to 
> automatically "fix" devices already programmed when dropping back to a 
> different method (it can't on my board). Sigh.
> 
> Anyway, the warning should at least help find which boards have bad ACPI IRQ 
> routing.
> 

I've applied this patch to 2.4.22-pre3-ac1. (Needed to patch some of it 
by hand)
It seems to work for my Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I've only checked that all 
drivers succesfully connect to devices. I have not checked wether all 
the devices work yet.

Many thanks
	-Rob.




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