Re: must-fix list, v5

Andrew Morton
2003-05-22T08:15:13Z

"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com> wrote:
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> > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@digeo.com]
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> Hi just wanted to add some comments below:

Appreciated, thanks.

> > drivers/acpi/
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> > o davej: ACPI has a number of failures right now. There are
> ...
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> Working on these (they're all in bugzilla), more help needed of course
> :)

OK, well if they're safely bugzilla'd I shall remove them from here.
Unless you think they're drop-dead stop-ship material.

> > +o mochel: it seems the acpi irq routing code could use a
> > serious rewrite.
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> No the problem is the ACPI irq routing code is trying to piggyback on
> the existing MPS-specific data structures, and it's generally a hack. So
> yes mochel is right, but it is also purging MPS-ities from common code
> as well. I've done some preliminary work in this area and it doesn't
> seem to break anything (yet) but a rewrite in this area imho should not
> be rushed out the door. And, I think the above bugs can be fixed w/o the
> rewrite.

Where do you think this work sits on the seriousness scale? Is it
affecting a lot of people? Is it a large-scale restructure?

It sounds to me like it's a non-trivial piece of ACPI brain surgery and
that I should continue to track it, yes?