Re: drivers/pci/quirks.c: irq_reroute_variant is dead code?

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Mon Aug 10 2009 - 12:32:38 EST


[Corrected Stefan's address.]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:45:20 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:50:08 -0700
> > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > quirk_reroute_to_boot_interrupts_intel() goes to some effort to
> > > scan for a bunch of Intel devices and set
> > > dev->irq_reroute_variant = INTEL_IRQ_REROUTE_VARIANT. However,
> > > as far as I can see that's the only reference to
> > > dev->irq_reroute_variant and INTEL_IRQ_REROUTE_VARIANT, so the
> > > whole thing appears to have no effect.
> > >
> > > Is it all dead code? Is there something else which should be
> > > there missing?
> >
> > Hm my quick look couldn't find a user either. The initial patch
> > to add that stuff (e1d3a90846b40ad3160bf4b648d36c6badad39ac) had
> > an ACPI component, but it looks like that may have vanished
> > somehow (maybe some of the IOAPIC code got shuffled around and
> > this bit was missed?).
> >
> > Stefan or Ingo?
>
> I dont remember ioapic interactions. Stefan?
>
> Ingo
>


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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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