From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tear <tarrqt@yahoo.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] IO-APIC blacklist
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:55:15 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706021353430.23741@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <186376.4823.qm@web63604.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Tear wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't this also disable the IOAPIC in the (working) ACPI+IOAPIC case?
>
> Yes, it would. However, I wanted to make my addition
> to the kernel generic so that other people with
> problematic IO-APIC implementations can blacklist
> their systems without checking whether ACPI is enabled
> or not.
But that's just wrong. First off, all distro kernels come with ACPI on, so
the thing you're fixing is really just for somebody who compiles his own
kernel in a particular (and unusual/strange) configuration, and you're
making it _worse_ for everybody else.
And you're blacklisting it without even understaning _what_ is wrong. I
really think we should figure that part out first,
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-02 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-02 14:10 Tear
2007-06-02 14:39 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-06-02 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-02 20:32 ` Tear
2007-06-02 21:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-02 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-02 23:13 ` Len Brown
2007-06-02 23:33 ` Len Brown
2007-06-02 23:53 ` Tear
2007-06-03 4:16 ` Len Brown
2007-06-03 10:24 ` Tear
2007-06-03 11:25 ` Tear
2007-06-02 17:46 ` Len Brown
2007-06-02 20:39 ` Tear
2007-06-02 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-06-02 23:48 ` Tear
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