> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:h...@zytor.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 4:59 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan; x...@kernel.org; gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; o...@aepfle.de;
> a...@canonical.com; jasow...@redhat.com; t...@linutronix.de;
> jbeul...@suse.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] X86: Probe for PIC and set legacy_pic
> appropriately
> 
> On 04/11/2014 05:50 PM, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > +   /*
> > +    * Check to see if we have a PIC.
> > +    * Mask all except the cascade and read
> > +    * back the value we just wrote. If we don't
> > +    * have a PIC, we will read 0xff as opposed to the
> > +    * value we wrote.
> > +    */
> > +   outb(probe_val, PIC_MASTER_IMR);
> > +   probe_val = inb(PIC_MASTER_IMR);
> > +   if (probe_val == 0xff) {
> > +           printk(KERN_INFO "Using NULL legacy PIC\n");
> > +           legacy_pic = &null_legacy_pic;
> > +           raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8259A_lock, flags);
> > +           return;
> > +   }
> > +
> >     outb(0xff, PIC_MASTER_IMR);     /* mask all of 8259A-1 */
> >     outb(0xff, PIC_SLAVE_IMR);      /* mask all of 8259A-2 */
> >
> 
> Again, I would do at least the slave masking above the probe.
> 
> Also, I would compare to make sure we get the probe_val back and compare
> with != instead of comparing with ==.

Will do.

Thanks,

K. Y

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