[Bug 7264] Yenta TI - irq 11 nobody cared

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7264





------- Additional Comments From akpm at osdl.org  2006-10-05 15:06 -------
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:04:47 -0700
Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi at intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:47:29 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > (added bugzilla to cc)
> > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 23:34:25 +0200
> > Pavel Kysilka <goldenfish at bsys.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 01:32:47PM -0700, akpm at osdl.org wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The patch titled
> > > > 
> > > >      revert "PCI: quirk for IBM Dock II cardbus controllers"
> > > > 
> > > > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> > > > 
> > > >      revert-pci-quirk-for-ibm-dock-ii-cardbus-controllers.patch
> > > > 
> > > > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
> > > > out what to do about this
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Subject: revert "PCI: quirk for IBM Dock II cardbus controllers"
> > > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Daniel thinks this might fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7264
> > > > 
> > > > Pavel, can you let us know if this patch fixes it please?
> > > 
> > >  Hi,
> > > 
> > >      patch fixes problem. Complete dmesg will be saved in bugzilla.
> > > 
> > 
> > hm, OK, thanks for testing.
> > 
> > Now what?
> 
> So, the original patch was for enabling docking for the T20.  Basically,
> without the patch, the interrupts are all routed incorrectly on the
> cardbus controllers on the dock station when you hotdock.  If we
> revert this patch, we are going to break docking on the T20.  I'm ok
> with that - I think it is far better to not oops.  And the patch isn't 
> needed on newer systems (like T40) which have less brain death.  I
> think we could decide to just let docking break on these older systems.
> 

Could we use DMI info to work out whether the quirk is needed?



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