Re: PCI PM: Restore standard config registers of all devices early

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>      IOW, we can easily add a magic flag for registering a timer 
>      interrupt (in fact, I guess we already have IRQF_TIMER)

Side note: we may have IRQF_TIMER (and some timers even set it), but since 
it's not actually _used_ for anything it should come as no surprise that 
it's not set by the x86 code, for example (nor by a lot of other 
architectures).

But we can already notice system interrupts automatically by them being 
registered by "setup_irq()" instead of "request_irq()". And on x86, many 
of the really core interrupts aren't actually seen as device interrupts at 
all, but are directly taken by the kernel through local apic stuff. So 
they wouldn't get disabled anyway (example: local APIC timer interrupts 
and the inter-processor IPI).

So it should be pretty easy to do a reasonable job with the information 
that we already have available.

			Linus