Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:34:53 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ATA convert GSI to irq on ia64 |
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:25:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:42:04 +0000 > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:40:22PM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > > If an ATA drive uses legacy mode, ata driver will choose 14 and 15 as the > > > fixed irq number. On ia64 platform, such numbers are GSI and should be converted > > > to irq vector. > > > > > > Below patch against kernel 2.6.20 fixes it. > > > > These direct arch ifdefs in core aren't acceptable. > > For 2.6.21 that's true. But this is a suitable fix for 2.6.20.x, no?
Just putting in an #ifndef and allow to to set it up in asm/ata.h is almost as trivial and a lot nice conceptually. Then again what happened to the idea of putting fixes into mainline before -stable? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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