Re: [PATCH] ATA convert GSI to irq on ia64

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:34:53 +0000
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:25:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:42:04 +0000
> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:40:22PM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > > > If an ATA drive uses legacy mode, ata driver will choose 14 and 15 as the
> > > > fixed irq number. On ia64 platform, such numbers are GSI and should be converted
> > > > to irq vector.
> > > > 
> > > > Below patch against kernel 2.6.20 fixes it.
> > > 
> > > These direct arch ifdefs in core aren't acceptable.
> > 
> > For 2.6.21 that's true.  But this is a suitable fix for 2.6.20.x, no?
> 
> Just putting in an #ifndef and allow to to set it up in asm/ata.h
> is almost as trivial and a lot nice conceptually.

Well if that's what the 2.6.21 solution looks like then OK.  Would want to
see the patch though.

>  Then again
> what happened to the idea of putting fixes into mainline before
> -stable?

If the preferred mainline patch involves a lot of not-really-needed
restructuring then an alternative short-but-obvious fix for -stable is
sometimes more appropriate.
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