RE: [PATCH] IRQ params patch#4

Grover, Andrew
2003-07-23T07:53:21Z

Andrew,

You still hacking on this?

Just got another bug report (completely different HW) that I think might
be the same problem.

Regards -- Andy G.

> From: Andrew de Quincey [mailto:adq_dvb-fmPXVN3awWJAJAzL26g0SA@public.gmane.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:42 AM
> To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> Subject: [ACPI] [PATCH] IRQ params patch#4
>
>
> 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.
>

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