Subject: Re: default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems)

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:18:18 -0700 (PDT)

From: Kumar Gala <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:39:05 -0500

> As for making it ARCH specific, that doesn't really help since not
> all PPC hw has the limitation I spoke of.  Not even all MPIC (in our
> cases) have the limitation.

Since the PPC code knows exactly which MPICs have the problem the
PPC code is where the constraining can occur.

I agree completely with the suggestion that the arch code has to
interpret the cpumask as appropriate for the hardware, since the
user can stick "illegal" values there anyways.