Alexander Viro writes:
 >      Folks, what the hell is sti(); doing in device_init()?  It's
 > done _much_ earlier (before calibrate_delay(); in start_kernel())
 > and I don't see anything that would require repeating it...
 > 
 >      Looks bogus for me... Linus?

I'm pretty sure it's an unnecessary turd, and you can safely remove
it.

My memory is foggy on this, but I think it was in fact necessary a
long long time ago.

Later,
David S. Miller
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