Re: [stable] [PATCH] x86: Reserve FIRST_DEVICE_VECTOR in used_vectorsbitmap

From: Stefan Bader
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 16:23:21 EST


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


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