From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Regression: Bisected, IRQ and MSI allocations screwed without sparse irq Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:11:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <1226572171.6834.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081113.141513.116537651.davem@davemloft.net> <20081119.151138.93409143.davem@davemloft.net> <1227263614.25811.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer , David Miller , netdev , LKML , Robert Olsson , Ingo Molnar To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Return-path: Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:49435 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbYKUVML (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:12:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > Ok, I queue it for mainline. This solves just the number of irqs > > limitation, the rmmod problem still persists, right ? > > It solves both the irq limit and the NIU driver unload bug. I don't believe that it solves it. It hides it at the best. > We should give it a good description. > I have cooked up a patch with a description below, will you accept that? > > Who's tree do you want it to go upsteam via? > (You are listed as one of the X86 maintainers, but Ingo's tree seems more > up-to-date. My patch below is agains DaveM's tree) I queued it already with a description of the irq nr. problem. The rmmod problem is something different and should be investigated thoroughly instead of declaring it solved by magic. Thanks, tglx