Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750951AbWISU1W (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:27:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751105AbWISU1W (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:27:22 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:5860 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750951AbWISU1W (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:27:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change From: Lee Revell To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Greg KH , 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: <20060919201231.GA7560@srcf.ucam.org> 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> <1157913647.5076.174.camel@mindpipe> <20060910204516.GA9036@srcf.ucam.org> <1158696268.13845.9.camel@mindpipe> <20060919201231.GA7560@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:28:36 -0400 Message-Id: <1158697716.13845.13.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: 1202 Lines: 29 On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 21:12 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:04:27PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:45 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:40:46PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > How, and on what hardware? > > > > Here's a case where the kernel does not see a user's sound card at all > > unless ACPI is disabled (second to last comment): > > That's more likely to be an interrupt routing issue than anything > intrinsically awkward with ACPI. > True, but I was responding to an earlier statement along the lines of "disabling ACPI is silly, who would do that?", and from these (and many other) users' POV, they need to disable ACPI to have a working machine. 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/