Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:30:37 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override | |
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
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> This fixes "hwclock" triggered boottime hangs for a few HP/Compaq laptops
> and might as such be applicable to 2.6.24 still.
It's not a regression as far as I can see (ie we've always done that port
80 access for slow-down), and quite frankly, I think the code is horribly
ugly.
Using a DMI quirk for something like this is just not maintainable. Are we
going to live with doing new quirks forever? I'd rather just remove the
slowdown entirely (obviously that is not for 2.6.24 either, though!), and
drivers that then are shown to really need it could use their *own* ports.
Linus
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