Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932116AbWAESD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:03:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932117AbWAESD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:03:59 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:17868 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932116AbWAESD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:03:58 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: dtor_core@ameritech.net Subject: Re: 2.6.15-ck1 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:28:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Arjan van de Ven , ck list , linux kernel mailing list References: <200601041200.03593.kernel@kolivas.org> <200601051739.05441.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601051828.47133.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 19 On Thursday 05 January 2006 18:13, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Yes, until some driver claims serio port interrupt is not acquired and > thus available for others. > > I would say we could bump the timer as high as 5 seconds for > hotplugging. It may give delay with some KVMs, but only first time you > switch to the box in question. I would say you just should aquire the interrupt always. Running a timer instead of just using the perfectly fine interrupt looks simply like a design bug, not a feature. -Andi - 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/