Re: regression caused by: genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq

[Yinghai Lu]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > >  Do we think it's a bug in the RHEL 5.1 kernel?  Even so, that's a
>  > >  problem for the 2.6.25 kernel.
>  >
>  > it is RHEL 5.1 kernel problem, it has code for maskbit with msi there,
>  > but that does work...
typo: should be "that does *not* work"
>
>  addendum - basically the argument is: we should kexec conservatively -
>  i.e. we should leave as few assumptions and hw changes around as
>  possible. So restoring the MSI state is fair enough as a robustness fix,
>  even though only kexec to older kernels is affected.

i keep using kexec back and forth to avoid BIOS post stage.

YH
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