From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932702AbYEFWAz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 18:00:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765704AbYEFWAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 18:00:20 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:47450 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760402AbYEFWAR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 18:00:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4820D522.50104@keyaccess.nl> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 00:01:06 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: Uwe Bugla , Takashi Iwai , Len Brown , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] PNP: add AD1815 and AD1816 quirks References: <481FAC37.6090703@keyaccess.nl> <200805061308.14673.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <4820C846.2040205@keyaccess.nl> <200805061527.21134.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200805061527.21134.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06-05-08 23:27, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > This part is just my general unhappiness about options like > "acpi_irq_nobalance" and "acpi_irq_isa=". I was just wondering > what Windows does when it can't assign PNP IRQs. Does it assign > them all before PCI, so they know they have enough? Do it > dynamically move PCI interrupts? Do it require explicit boot > flags like Linux does? Or maybe nobody even needs those flags > on Linux, and the flags are effectively unused. That's for Len. I haven't used Windows in eight or nine years now and am consequently progressively ignorant of it. Rene.