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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Interrupt remapping quirk tainting the kernel
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:17:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1396253868.23070.94.camel@chaos.site> (raw)

Hi Neil and all,

I have (once again) a question about this commit:

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:38:32 +0000
Subject: iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets
Git-commit: 03bbcb2e7e292838bb0244f5a7816d194c911d62

When interrupt remapping is disabled by this quirk, the kernel gets
tainted. What is the rationale for doing that?

The user can boot with intremap=off. That will also disable interrupt
remapping, as the quirk does, but not taint the kernel. If this is
considered OK then I fail to see why the quirk should behave differently
and taint the kernel.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support


             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-31  8:17 Jean Delvare [this message]
2014-03-31 10:56 ` Interrupt remapping quirk tainting the kernel Neil Horman
2014-03-31 14:18   ` Jean Delvare
2014-03-31 15:07     ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-03-31 15:28     ` Neil Horman

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