Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> This fixes "hwclock" triggered boottime hangs for a few HP/Compaq laptops
> and might as such be applicable to 2.6.24 still.

It's not a regression as far as I can see (ie we've always done that port 
80 access for slow-down), and quite frankly, I think the code is horribly 
ugly.

Using a DMI quirk for something like this is just not maintainable. Are we 
going to live with doing new quirks forever? I'd rather just remove the 
slowdown entirely (obviously that is not for 2.6.24 either, though!), and 
drivers that then are shown to really need it could use their *own* ports.

		Linus
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