From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965126AbWIEPZK (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:25:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965123AbWIEPZK (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:25:10 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:20666 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965127AbWIEPZH (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:25:07 -0400 Subject: Re: VIA IRQ quirk, another (embarrassing) suggestion. From: Alan Cox To: Sergio Monteiro Basto Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, harmon@ksu.edu, Daniel Drake , Len Brown In-Reply-To: <1157468155.30252.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1157330567.3046.24.camel@localhost.portugal> <20060903175841.7a84c63c.akpm@osdl.org> <44FBBD28.6070601@garzik.org> <20060904055502.GA26816@tuatara.stupidest.org> <1157370847.4624.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060904183352.GA14004@tuatara.stupidest.org> <1157468155.30252.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:46:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1157471166.9018.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Maw, 2006-09-05 am 15:55 +0100, ysgrifennodd Sergio Monteiro Basto: > We have billions of VIA chip sets with VIA PCI on-board and > VIA PCI on others chip sets, if exists, are a very few. > So, because some exceptions, we shouldn't stop a resolution of a very > large % of the cases. Not true at all. Large numbers of the VIA devices on VIA boards are not the builtin version. Devices migrate over time from one to the other. You can tell fron the PCI northbridge what is built in (in theory) but we need a better way to deal with all this