On Feb 10, 2008 12:45 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:24:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I suggest Ivan's patch be merged ASAP as it actually fixes bugs.
> > > > This patch is just cleanup (and takes care of some future concerns).
> > >
> > > your patch and Ivan's patch should be merged in one...
> >
> > I really don't care whether they get merges as one or separately, but I
> > think it should be merged _now_ (-rc1 is already delayed), and I'd like to
> > see the final versions of both. Does anybody have them in a final
> > agreed-upon format (preferably with that oddness in quirk_intel_irqbalance
> > also fixed?)
>
> I just looked at fixing that -- the reason seems to be that we don't
> actually have the struct pci_dev at that point.  I can fix it, but I
> think it's actually buggy.  I want to look at some chipset docs to
> confirm that though.
>
> I've attached the two patches that I believe are the ones we want.  We
> can (and should) fix quirk_intel_irqbalance separately.

Andrew,

those two patch just got into linus 2.6.25-rc1.

I assume that you will drop
gregkh-pci-pci-make-pci-extended-config-space-a-driver-opt-in.patch in
-mm.

please check some updated patches in -mm that could be affected. hope
it could save you some time

x86-validate-against-acpi-motherboard-resources.patch
x86-clear-pci_mmcfg_virt-when-mmcfg-get-rejected.patch
x86-mmconf-enable-mcfg-early.patch
x86_64-check-msr-to-get-mmconfig-for-amd-family-10h-opteron-v3.patch

YH