From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:11:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87fxjyopie.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <20090104092430.7ffd2c41@infradead.org> <20090104103104.6fdda9f2@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:54:15 -0800 (PST)") Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > That said, I also wonder if we really even need to autoprobe the > interrupts on any modern hardware. Rather than trying to speed up irq > probing, maybe we could figure it out some other way.. You'll hate that suggestion, but i8250_pnp should already discover it fine via ACPI on modern systems. ia64 has done it this way forever. It probably won't work on really old system, but one could always use DMI year to distingush (not pretty, but works usually) -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com