From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261272AbVFDVVD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:21:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbVFDVVD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:21:03 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:30633 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261272AbVFDVU5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:20:57 -0400 To: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Andrew Morton , Alan Stern , Greg KH , Fastboot mailing list , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [RFC/PATCH] Kdump: Disabling PCI interrupts in capture kernel References: <20050603112524.GB7022@in.ibm.com> <20050603182147.GB5751@kroah.com> <200506041618.24736.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050604134306.GB7439@in.ibm.com> <20050604140301.GC7439@in.ibm.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 04 Jun 2005 15:14:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20050604140301.GC7439@in.ibm.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dipankar Sarma writes: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 07:13:06PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > That said, I am not sure what is the issue with the console > > drivers. What good is the irq for the console driver if > > it hasn't requested for it ? Why should disabling it affect > > consoles ? The interrupt will get enabled as soon as the driver > > requests for it as per Vivek's patch. Am I missing something here ? > > Doh! The answer is in earlier emails - fw controlled pci consoles. There is still the question do fw controlled pci consoles intersect with consoles used during kdump. I would be very surprised if the intersected but they might. Eric