From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
greg@kroah.com, harmon@ksu.edu, Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: VIA IRQ quirk, another (embarrassing) suggestion.
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:43:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FBD91B.2080600@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060904055502.GA26816@tuatara.stupidest.org>
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Now, failing that, Jeff, what about if we try to use ACPI to detect if
> the PCI device is on-board or a plug-in card? If we did and ignored
> them would that satisfy you?
>
> Yes, I know this is yet-another horrible heuristic and might not work
> in all cases, but I think we need to aim to get the majority of
> systems broken working pretty promptly. As Andrew said, this really
> is quire embarrassing right now.
It's not a question of me being satisfied or embarrassed. The only
question is what works for all cases.
My guess is that we need more complex logic to detect which devices are
truly on-board.
Unfortunately for us, PCI cards with VIA SATA or VIA ethernet exist, so
we cannot continue the current scheme of device ID enumeration either.
Jeff
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VGER BF report: H 0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-04 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-04 0:42 VIA IRQ quirk fixup only in XT-PIC mode Take 3 Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-04 0:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-04 5:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-03 13:52 ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-04 5:55 ` VIA IRQ quirk, another (embarrassing) suggestion Chris Wedgwood
2006-09-04 7:43 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-04 11:54 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-04 12:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-04 18:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-09-05 14:55 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-05 15:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 1:14 ` [PATCH] take 4 " Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-06 1:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-05 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-04 16:25 ` VIA IRQ quirk fixup only in XT-PIC mode Take 3 Sergio Monteiro Basto
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