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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clarify pci.txt wrt IRQ allocation
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:13:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040612001302.GA10294@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406111529.16419.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:29:16PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I think we should make it explicit that PCI IRQs shouldn't be relied
> upon until after pci_enable_device().  This patch:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc3/2.6.7-rc3-mm1/broken-out/bk-acpi.patch
> 
> does PCI interrupt routing (based on ACPI _PRT) and IRQ allocation
> at pci_enable_device()-time.
> 
> (To avoid breaking things in 2.6, the above patch still allocates
> all PCI IRQs in pci_acpi_init(), before any drivers are initialized.
> But that shouldn't be needed by correct drivers, and I'd like to
> remove it in 2.7.)

I agree.

> Here's a possible update:

Thanks, I've applied this to my trees.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-12  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-11 21:29 [PATCH] clarify pci.txt wrt IRQ allocation Bjorn Helgaas
2004-06-12  0:13 ` Greg KH [this message]

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