Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760220AbZADTKZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:10:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757001AbZADTKI (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:10:08 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:42525 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751336AbZADTKG (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:10:06 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls From: Andi Kleen References: <20090104092430.7ffd2c41@infradead.org> <20090104103104.6fdda9f2@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:11:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:54:15 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <87fxjyopie.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 22 Linus Torvalds writes: > That said, I also wonder if we really even need to autoprobe the > interrupts on any modern hardware. Rather than trying to speed up irq > probing, maybe we could figure it out some other way.. You'll hate that suggestion, but i8250_pnp should already discover it fine via ACPI on modern systems. ia64 has done it this way forever. It probably won't work on really old system, but one could always use DMI year to distingush (not pretty, but works usually) -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- 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/