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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:30:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix PCI interrupt setting for ia64
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To: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:49:10AM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> In ia64 kernel, IOSAPIC's RTEs for PCI interrupts are unmasked at the
> boot time before installing device drivers. I think it is very dangerous.

Hi Kenji,
I think this behavior exists to support "legacy" IRQ probing.
I'm wondering if it would be sufficient to wrap the patch in
"#ifndef CONFIG_ISA" or something like that.

grant