Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mike ryan writes:
: On 11/17/00, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Price writes:
: > : Yep, that did it.  Since Dell laptops are so commonplace it
: > : would be nice get this fixed in the GENERIC before the release
: > : goes out.  I'm sure there is a more appropriate fix, but the
: > : following patch worked for me.
: > 
: > This won't be changed.  polling works on more systems than a specific
: > IRQ, and the IRQ to use varies so widely that any choice is likely to
: > be wrong.
: 
: are the reasons why polling doesn't work on some hardware well
: understood?

I wasn't aware that polling wasn't working until very recently.  I
don't have a good idea how many machines this impacts.

Warner


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