From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: whiteheadm@acm.org
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_legacy: Allow disabling of legacy PATA device probes on non-PCI systems
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:46:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161129204602.GD4959@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8WD_ZxS0TMzHB+=3Gohw39+S2hQbm-pucuYPYK6JUhFWVd5A@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 03:12:31PM -0500, tedheadster wrote:
> > Can you please give a concrete example of a machine and situation
> > where this would be useful?
> >
>
>
> Sure, my regression testing i486 system has this problem. It only has
> an EISA bus, no PCI. I had to apply the patch to be able to put even
> 2-3 cards in it. It had run out of IRQs.
>
> This testing helped uncover a long time kernel bug that now has a patch.
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee
>
> Please check the linux-kernel mailing list thread "What exactly do
> 32-bit x86 exceptions push on the stack in the CS slot?" for more
> details.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/19/308
I see. Yeah, I don't have any objections to the change although I do
wish it were easier / automatic. That said, given how niche it is, it
most likely won't matter. Bartlomiej, what do you think?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-29 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-29 17:53 [PATCH] pata_legacy: Allow disabling of legacy PATA device probes on non-PCI systems Matthew Whitehead
2016-11-29 19:41 ` Tejun Heo
2016-11-29 20:12 ` tedheadster
2016-11-29 20:46 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-11-30 13:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-11-30 17:13 ` tedheadster
2016-11-30 13:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-11-30 14:53 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-30 15:03 ` tedheadster
2016-11-30 18:15 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-12-02 13:37 ` tedheadster
2016-12-02 16:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-30 20:22 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <CAP8WD_bZWeLBhLXqJG5uDwBe+zBubw+A+ecSuaihOuwvw9QoCQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-02 17:07 ` Tejun Heo
2016-12-05 14:19 ` tedheadster
2016-12-05 19:23 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <CAP8WD_becq+h2=-g7t-6Pp1psmkCCvdB0YUcg+wYPocUP4dYdw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-12 17:01 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <CAP8WD_YMtnsuYmJHGz1eLmrQNemsB1Z6Soyb6f72brAfMNUNeg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-20 2:12 ` tedheadster
2016-12-22 16:37 ` Tejun Heo
2016-12-22 17:14 ` tedheadster
2016-12-22 17:19 ` Tejun Heo
2016-12-22 18:30 ` tedheadster
2016-12-22 19:22 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-03 17:34 ` One Thousand Gnomes
[not found] ` <CAP8WD_bS61spyQkd7cvktFf_dPc0wgNZ8qEa7GVrXgUobHQdvw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-19 21:37 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-20 17:08 ` tedheadster
2017-01-20 19:19 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-20 19:38 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-23 23:36 ` Gwendal Grignou
2017-01-23 23:57 ` tedheadster
2017-01-24 16:19 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-27 3:01 ` tedheadster
2017-02-07 20:21 ` Gwendal Grignou
2017-02-08 19:43 ` Tejun Heo
2017-02-09 23:49 ` Gwendal Grignou
2017-02-10 0:36 ` tedheadster
2017-02-10 13:19 ` Tejun Heo
2017-02-23 19:26 ` tedheadster
2017-03-03 17:00 ` [PATCH] libata: transport: Remove circular dependency at free time Gwendal Grignou
2017-03-03 18:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-03-03 18:36 ` Tejun Heo
2017-03-06 20:09 ` Tejun Heo
2017-03-06 20:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-03-06 20:26 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-24 15:57 ` [PATCH] pata_legacy: Allow disabling of legacy PATA device probes on non-PCI systems Tejun Heo
2016-12-12 12:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-11-30 13:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-11-30 13:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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