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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: usb handoff in early_quirk
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:00:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110110160001.GC5275@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2A13BC.3000003@kernel.org>

On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 11:59:56AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> some systems keep getting
>   APIC calibration not consistent with PM-Timer: 139ms instead of 100ms
>   APIC delta adjusted to PM-Timer: 831249 (1163736)
> 
> USB legacy SMI handler is not disabled at that time.
> 
> Try to disable USB legacy support early with this patch.
> So later APIC Timer calibration don't get messed up by USB legacy support SMI handler.
> After this patch, that warning never show up for 100 reboot tests.

But is that warning a real issue?  Does it cause problems for the user
(becides annoying them of course)?

> reuse code from drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
> with changes
> 1. delay and sleep  ===> io_delay
> 2. dev_warn etc to pr_warn(num, slot, func...)

Why change this function?  What's wrong with dev_warn()?  It's much more
descriptive of the device that is being referred to.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-10 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4D2A1152.1040903@kernel.org>
2011-01-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] pci, usb: Seperate usb handoff func to another file Yinghai Lu
2011-01-09 21:09   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-01-10  7:01     ` Yinghai Lu
2011-01-10  9:38       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-01-10 15:57   ` Greg KH
2011-01-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: early_quirk check all dev/func in domain 0 Yinghai Lu
2011-01-10 16:01   ` Greg KH
2011-01-10 19:53     ` Yinghai Lu
2011-01-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: usb handoff in early_quirk Yinghai Lu
2011-01-10 16:00   ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-09 22:07 Sander Eikelenboom

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