On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Brent Casavant wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Considering that all users of this code depend on
> > (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) the SGI_IOC4 option
> > should also depend on it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tony,
>
> Please don't apply this yet. I'll need some guidance from Adrian
> and you on how to proceed.
>
> The IOC4 chip _is_ available on a PCI card for x86 based systems.
> And that is why I removed the dependence of the config option on
> IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC.
>
> Unfortunately the only user of IOC4 on x86 is the "external interrupt"
> IOC4 sub-driver which is available under the GPL, but was not accepted
> into the Linux kernel.
>...
I wasn't aware of that driver.
Why wasn't it accepted?
> Brent
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Adrian
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