Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> This is exactly what you are already doing with SCI, thanks to
> "acpi_pic_sci_set_trigger()", no?
> 
> So I'm really suggesting that instead of disabling the PCI irq routing, it 
> should do exactly the same thing that SCI already does. Namely make sure 
> that ELCR is set correctly for it.

In fact, we would even use the same function for it (the only thing that
makes it SCI-specific right now is the "printk()" that says "SCI IRQ", the
rest really is totally generic.

So how about renaming "acpi_pic_sci_set_trigger()" to not have the "sci" 
part in there, and remove it's dependence on CONFIG_ACPI_BUS, and just 
using it in "apic_pci_link_add()" to make sure that any PCI links we find 
to be enabled have the right ELCR. That's _logical_, since if we were to 
actually enable them, we'd set ELCR right. So literally the only 
difference between disabling them at boot (and then re-enabling them when 
a driver finds them) _is_ that ELCR setting..

And that would make me much happier, because it's a "minimally intrusive" 
thing to do.

		Linus
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