Re: [PATCH][POKE] Skip looking for ioapic overrides when ioapicsare not present

[Florian Mickler]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:48:43 +0200
Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 10:01 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > index 68df09b..3940103 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > @@ -3789,6 +3789,9 @@ int acpi_get_override_irq(u32 gsi, int *trigger, int *polarity)
> >  {
> >  	int ioapic, pin, idx;
> >  
> > +	if (acpi_irq_model != ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_IOAPIC)
> > +		return -1;
> > +
> >  	if (skip_ioapic_setup)
> >  		return -1;
> >  
> 
> Seems to have the same goal as commit
> 678301ecadec24ff77ab310eebf8a32ccddb1850 ("x86, ioapic: Don't warn about
> non-existing IOAPICs if we have none"), which got merged in the v2.6.38
> cycle (authored by me, signed off by Ingo Molnar). Maybe Eric's patch is
> more correct. I can't say as I was happy with the effect of my patch
> (ie, make an uninteresting error disappear) and didn't investigate any
> further. I have also no desire to dive into this matter again.
> 
> 
> Paul
> 

Thanks for letting me know. Sedat, did you actually test with 2.6.38?

Regards,
Flo
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