Re: drivers/pci/quirks.c: irq_reroute_variant is dead code?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:50:08 -0700
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > quirk_reroute_to_boot_interrupts_intel() goes to some effort to 
> > scan for a bunch of Intel devices and set 
> > dev->irq_reroute_variant = INTEL_IRQ_REROUTE_VARIANT.  However, 
> > as far as I can see that's the only reference to 
> > dev->irq_reroute_variant and INTEL_IRQ_REROUTE_VARIANT, so the 
> > whole thing appears to have no effect.
> > 
> > Is it all dead code?  Is there something else which should be 
> > there missing?
> 
> Hm my quick look couldn't find a user either.  The initial patch 
> to add that stuff (e1d3a90846b40ad3160bf4b648d36c6badad39ac) had 
> an ACPI component, but it looks like that may have vanished 
> somehow (maybe some of the IOAPIC code got shuffled around and 
> this bit was missed?).
> 
> Stefan or Ingo?

I dont remember ioapic interactions. Stefan?

	Ingo
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