On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:27 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > Why do you insist on maintaining the wrong initialization order
> > on resume? When I raised the issue, Len brought up that the resume
> > order did not match spec, but then there has been slow progress
> > in fixing it (it's buried in -mm tree).
>
> It's not getting merged, SINCE IT DOESN'T WORK. It causes all sorts of
> problems, because ACPI requires all kinds of things to be up and running
> in order to actually work, and that in turn breaks all the devices that
> have different ordering constraints.
>
> ACPI is a piece of sh*t. It asks the OS to do impossible things, like
> running it early in the config sequence when it then at the same time
> wants to depend on stuff that are there *late* in the sequence. It's not
> the first time this insane situation has happened, either.
You will find no argument from me with that statement.
> But we'll try to merge the patch that totally switches around the whole
> initialization order hopefully early after 2.6.20. But no way in hell do
> we do it now, and I personally suspect we'll end reverting it when we do
> try it just because it will probably break other things. But we'll see.
>
> In the meantime, sky2 doesn't work with MSI
On one and only one platform. It works fine on others. Don't blame the
driver, stop it in PCI.
--
Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
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