Re: acpi gets wrong interrupt for via sata in 2.6.16.17

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:47:35 -0700
Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:14:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I have both reversion patches queued up but haven't heard from
> > anyone about anything.
> 
> i saw that --- i don't think it's right, but it's not more wrong than
> having that merged as-is in the first place which i'll argue is wrong
> by virtue of the fact we run the quirk everywhere and apparently break
> things
> 
> > I don't know if anyone's working on this bug.
> 
> it's not forgotten, i'm waiting to hear back from people still.
> enabling ACPI *should* suffice, but for some people clearly it doesn't
> (there are claims VIA got their ACPI wrong so this might explain why
> it works for some people and not others)
> 
> > Thursday is my subsystem-maintainer-spamming day, so the reverts
> > will be heading Gregwards today.
> 
> like i said, i really don't think reverting the patches is technically
> correct, but given that i don't have adequate hardware to test against
> it might be the least painful option right now

Yes, it's a question of whose machines we choose to break.

It'd be great to get this thing nailed.  Do the people who are out testing
things need re-asking?  
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