From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763596AbYJJUXU (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:23:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761345AbYJJUXM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:23:12 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:42884 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761170AbYJJUXL (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:23:11 -0400 Message-ID: <48EFB99F.3080003@canonical.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:22:55 -0400 From: Stefan Bader User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: stable@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Yinghai Lu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] x86: Reserve FIRST_DEVICE_VECTOR in used_vectors bitmap References: <48EFB4B2.2020508@canonical.com> <20081010201639.GB32164@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20081010201639.GB32164@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:54PM -0400, Stefan Bader wrote: >> Affected: 2.6.24-2.6.27 >> >> Someone from the community found out, that after repeatedly unloading and >> loading a device driver that uses MSI IRQs, the system eventually assigned >> the vector initially reserved for IRQ0 to the device driver. > > "Someone"? do you have a name or pointer to the person/bugreport so > that they can be properly credited? > I had a name in but the person did not want to be mentioned. > thanks, > > greg k-h -- When all other means of communication fail, try words!