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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.25-pre8, 2.6.2-rc2 mca.c - pass irq_safe around
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:57:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16425.25037.798727.698612@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9337.1076049423@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

>>>>> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:37:03 +1100, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:

  Keith> The patch is against 2.4.25-pre8 bk.  It also applies to
  Keith> 2.6.2-rc2 bk (with some fuzz and offsets), after applying my
  Keith> previous 6 patches to 2.6.2-rc2 mca.c.

  Keith> Patches from Ben Woodward to calculate irq_safe once and pass
  Keith> it around.

I applied the patch but I'm wondering what happens if someone adds a
new SAL_INFO_TYPE which isn't irq-safe.  Wouldn't it be safer to flip
things around and check sal_info_type against known-to-be-safe values?

	--david

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-06  6:37 [patch] 2.4.25-pre8, 2.6.2-rc2 mca.c - pass irq_safe around Keith Owens
2004-02-10 22:57 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-02-10 23:05 ` Keith Owens

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