Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: [patch 0/3] pci: store PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN in pci_dev

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:38:17PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:30 -0700, Kristen Accardi wrote:
> > Store the value of PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN in the pci_dev structure for use
> > later.  This is useful for pci hotplug.  When a device is "surprise"
> > removed, the pci config space is no longer available.  However,
> > the pin value is needed to correctly disable the irq for the device.
> 
> Hmmm maybe it's just me..... but... isn't that both advisory and
> entirely unrelated to any kind of real interrupt thing? Eg dev->irq is
> there already and works even in the sight of IO-APICs etc etc...

With surprise hotplug, we can't read the pin from the card any more...
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