From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932466AbWFVIfa (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:35:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932458AbWFVIfa (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:35:30 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:12558 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932454AbWFVIf3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:35:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:35:16 +0100 From: Russell King To: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] genirq: allow usage of no_irq_chip Message-ID: <20060622083516.GB25212@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu References: <20060610085428.366868000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> <20060610085435.487020000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> <20060621161236.e868284d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060621161236.e868284d.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:12:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:15:11 -0000 > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Some dumb interrupt hardware has no way to ack/mask.... Instead of creating a > > seperate chip structure we allow to reuse the already existing no_irq_chip > > This is the patch which causes powerpc to crash. In a quite ugly manner: > early oops, falls into xmon, keeps oopsing from within xmon. No serial > port, too early for netconsole. > > I'll drop it. Note that dropping it makes the genirq stuff buggy on ARM, so this needs to be resolved before it can go anywhere near Linus' tree. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core