Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/mpic: Add DT option to skip readback after EOI

From: Segher Boessenkool
Date: Wed Jan 28 2015 - 15:15:54 EST


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:57:53PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> At this point, given the previous discussion, does anyone object to
> removing the readback entirely? Do we have any evidence that reading
> WHOAMI is effective at addressing whatever problem reading EOI made go
> away on the relevant platform?

What platforms were those? Just test there!

If no one remembers, they can not (any longer) be important platforms ;-)
Just remove the code, and if in twelve months finally someone reports a
failure we will at least know what platform it was.


Segher
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