From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:10:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix PCI interrupt setting for ia64 Message-Id: <16460.61267.364413.100233@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8401B1A017@PDSMSX403.ccr.corp.intel.com> <16460.59685.452893.22564@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040308215448.I21938@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200403081505.21644.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200403081505.21644.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Russell King , davidm@hpl.hp.com, Takayoshi Kochi , benjamin.liu@intel.com, iod00d@hp.com, kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:05:21 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas said: Bjorn> My inclination is that it's better to help find ACPI bugs, Bjorn> and if broken tables turn out to be a problem, we can add Bjorn> some kind of command-line switch or blacklist to deal with Bjorn> it. But I guess we should really get David's opinion, since Bjorn> this is a potential issue for 2.6 distributions. I agree with Bjorn's reasoning, but think that the patch should be tested first on a Big Sur machine (with the latest official firmware). If something breaks with old firmware, we can then at least ask the affected people to upgrade their firmware (or come up with a kernel workaround). --david