Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754232AbYKHWOG (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:14:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752576AbYKHWNy (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:13:54 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.236]:42015 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752557AbYKHWNy (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:13:54 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=xfVtiHNsTHy5+ZRmk1xjPsrVa+LQcpXIkq/3jLYnztUHJkk9xUp/NJ1/+4+1mvlasB S19IBzihv64PH0oKaBW/0CRCSzQsHdkjpP05lNuK6BwVJAXmf461P8S3GR57tRvcwLja 0ZCKv0GsA/wytQ6QkQjM965eMzdWmVaefV4NY= Message-ID: <86802c440811081413v58ffb2fah90849e7aa26cc67f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:13:53 -0800 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity Cc: "Kumar Gala" , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <20081106133524.75588d96.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081106133524.75588d96.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5b6765a164e61141 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1161 Lines: 30 On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:31:05 -0600 (CST) > Kumar Gala wrote: > >> >From 819ad3ed4660f4238e053728a8b5aa93d22b13d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Kumar Gala >> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:13:53 -0600 >> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity >> >> This addresses a regression in that if a user specified an affinity >> for an interrupt that affinity information would get reset between >> a request_irq(), free_irq() and request_irq() for the same irq. >> ... > > Are you able to identify when this regression occurred? It isn't > immediately obvious to me. > > If the regression is present in 2.6.27 or earlier, do you think we > should backport the fix? If so, a different patch would be needed due > to the presence of it seems that is not a regression... YH -- 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/