> Hm, that reads like the boot IRQ erratas of certain chipsets - > the APIC could throw a fit essentially locking up the system. > FYI, we have fixes for that upstream already. Good - certainly it used to be the case that masking APIC IRQs and leaving them masked from the IRQ handled used to do funny things sometimes. > i think you severely over-estimate the importance and ratio of > drivers that enable irqs within irq handlers. (Nor does anyone > want to break them really - we want to have a sane default and > we want to flag the broken cases as broken.) IDE. A lot less people use the IDE stack nowdays but its a big item and getting it wrong tends to eat your files. I do object to the attitude shown about "forcing" people. It's a community project built by a large number of people on a mix of pragmatic and elegant design balances. Maybe it's just unfortunate choice of wording but it is the wrong sentiment. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html