Re: [PATCH] IRQ params patch#4

Rob North
2003-07-19T10:49:04Z

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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