Re: ohci1394 unhandled interrupts bug in 2.6.14-rc2

[Stefan Richter]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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]

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