Re: ohci1394 unhandled interrupts bug in 2.6.14-rc2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>diff -X linux-2.6.14-rc2/Documentation/dontdiff -Naur linux-2.6.14-rc2.orig/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c linux-2.6.14-rc2/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
> >>--- linux-2.6.14-rc2.orig/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c	2005-09-19 20:00:41.000000000 -0700
> >>+++ linux-2.6.14-rc2/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c	2005-10-15 12:55:08.000000000 -0700
> [...]
> >>+module_param(toshiba, bool, 0);
> >>+MODULE_PARM_DESC(toshiba, "Toshiba Legacy-Free BIOS workaround (default=0).");
> [...]
> > It would be really really preferable if we could find some automatic way of
> > doing this.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> >  Is it possible to use DMI matching, like
> > arch/i386/kernel/acpi/sleep.c:acpisleep_dmi_table ?
> 
> Earlier forms of the patch do DMI matching:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux1394-devel&m=110790513206094
> http://www.janerob.com/rob/ts5100/tosh-1394.patch
> [short-circuited by if (1) at the second URL]

Rob, can you finish that patch off and send it?

> Of course we don't have a complete picture of which models are affected 
> though.

I suppose we could do both.  As people are found who need the module
parameter, we grab their DMI strings and add them to the table?