Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932425AbWIJSkO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:40:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932426AbWIJSkO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:40:14 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:661 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932425AbWIJSkM (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:40:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change From: Lee Revell To: Greg KH Cc: Alan Cox , Daniel Drake , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org, jeff@garzik.org, cw@f00f.org, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harmon@ksu.edu, len.brown@intel.com, vsu@altlinux.ru, liste@jordet.net In-Reply-To: <20060910002112.GA20672@kroah.com> References: <20060907223313.1770B7B40A0@zog.reactivated.net> <1157811641.6877.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4502D35E.8020802@gentoo.org> <1157817836.6877.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45033370.8040005@gentoo.org> <1157848272.6877.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060910002112.GA20672@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:40:46 -0400 Message-Id: <1157913647.5076.174.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 20 On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:21 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 01:31:12AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > VIA have always told me that "ACPI handles this" and we don't need > > quirks. Various chips have different IRQ routing logic and it's all a > > bit weird if we don't use ACPI and/or BIOS routing. > > So why isn't acpi handling all of this for us? Do people not want to > use acpi for some reason? Some applications such as realtime audio and probably gaming require ACPI to be disabled, as it causes horrible latency problems. This applies equally to Linux and Windows. Lee - 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/