Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:26:10 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
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        QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI bus failures with qemu-arm in kernel 3.8+
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:23:58PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 August 2013 23:18, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > But doesn't that mean that there is _currently_ no problem ? If so,
> > we can introduce the additional code when the problem really shows up.
> > Being Preemptive is good, but if it is not really needed today
> > I would rather have today's problems resolved and bother about tomorrow's
> > when they show up.
> 
> Conceptually the two parts go together: rely on correct
> irq routing, tell qemu we rely on correct irq routing.
> It's only one extra line...
> 
Possibly, but the lack of progress suggests that by tying both parts
together we might get neither accepted.

Old saying - surgery successful, patient dead.

Guenter
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