[PATCH 3/3] Revert "ACPI,PCI,IRQ: remove SCI penalize function"

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Tue Oct 4 00:23:30 PDT 2016


On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Sinan Kaya wrote:

> This reverts commit 9e5ed6d1fb87 ("ACPI,PCI,IRQ: remove SCI penalize
> function"). SCI penalty API was replaced by the runtime penalty calculation
> based on the value of acpi_gbl_FADT.sci_interrupt.

This does more than only reverting said commit ....
 
> acpi_gbl_FADT.sci_interrupt type does not get updated at the right time
> for some platforms and results in incorrect penalty assignment for PCI
> IRQs as irq_get_trigger_type returns the wrong type.

And the obvious question is: Why does irq_get_trigger_type() return the
wrong type?

What's the root cause of this problem? Your changelog does not tell
anything.

Thanks,

	tglx



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