Hello, On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 03:12:31PM -0500, tedheadster wrote: > > Can you please give a concrete example of a machine and situation > > where this would be useful? > > > > > Sure, my regression testing i486 system has this problem. It only has > an EISA bus, no PCI. I had to apply the patch to be able to put even > 2-3 cards in it. It had run out of IRQs. > > This testing helped uncover a long time kernel bug that now has a patch. > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee > > Please check the linux-kernel mailing list thread "What exactly do > 32-bit x86 exceptions push on the stack in the CS slot?" for more > details. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/19/308 I see. Yeah, I don't have any objections to the change although I do wish it were easier / automatic. That said, given how niche it is, it most likely won't matter. Bartlomiej, what do you think? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
