> I missed that one ... thanks for not telling/CC'ing me and not fixing > powerpc :-( (I know, everybody is supposed to have the bandwidth to read > all of lkml... I don't). > > We need to audit all of our PICs to make sure they can deal with > disabling an already ack'ed interrupt, which isn't clear.. in fact, that > might cause some to lose it when re-enabling later on. This is a major > semantic change and now I just discover it while we are at -rc5 ! > > I'm concerned that quite a few PICs will not re-emit the interrupt once > re-enabled.
Note that I'm not opposed to the change at all, I think it's a good idea, I'm just worried I'm discovering it a bit late and I've seen PICs broken in some many colorful ways that I'm a bit worried... Oh well... Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/