From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:13:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440811081413v58ffb2fah90849e7aa26cc67f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081106133524.75588d96.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:31:05 -0600 (CST)
> Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> >From 819ad3ed4660f4238e053728a8b5aa93d22b13d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
>> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:13:53 -0600
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity
>>
>> This addresses a regression in that if a user specified an affinity
>> for an interrupt that affinity information would get reset between
>> a request_irq(), free_irq() and request_irq() for the same irq.
>>
...
>
> Are you able to identify when this regression occurred? It isn't
> immediately obvious to me.
>
> If the regression is present in 2.6.27 or earlier, do you think we
> should backport the fix? If so, a different patch would be needed due
> to the presence of
it seems that is not a regression...
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-08 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 16:31 [PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity Kumar Gala
2008-11-06 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-06 23:23 ` Kumar Gala
2008-11-08 22:13 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-11-08 22:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-08 22:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-09 0:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-09 2:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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