Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263162AbTEGNCW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 09:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263163AbTEGNCW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 09:02:22 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:45955 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263162AbTEGNCW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 09:02:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] fix for irq_affinity_write_proc v2.5 From: Alan Cox To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Keith Mannthey , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030507022717.GV8978@holomorphy.com> References: <1052247789.16886.261.camel@dyn9-47-17-180.beaverton.ibm.com> <1052250874.1202.162.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030507022717.GV8978@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1052309780.3060.8.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 07 May 2003 13:16:22 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 16 On Mer, 2003-05-07 at 03:27, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > It's basically not working as specified for clustered hierarchical, and > in truth the specification can never be met. As it stands most calls to > it are lethal on such systems, especially those using physical destmod. > > I'd prefer to have it redesigned for some validity checking and error > returns as on such systems the impossible destinations serve no purpose > but raising MCE's and/or deadlocking the box. In which case I agree it does indeed make sense - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/