Re: [PATCH] fix PCI interrupt setting for ia64

From: Grant Grundler
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 01:32:05 EST


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:49:10AM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> In ia64 kernel, IOSAPIC's RTEs for PCI interrupts are unmasked at the
> boot time before installing device drivers. I think it is very dangerous.

Hi Kenji,
I think this behavior exists to support "legacy" IRQ probing.
I'm wondering if it would be sufficient to wrap the patch in
"#ifndef CONFIG_ISA" or something like that.

grant
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