Subject: Re: [patch 7/9] e100: disable interrupts at boot

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:00:08 -0400

[email-masked] wrote:
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <[email-masked]>
> 
> Apparently the Intel PRO/100 device enables interrupts on reset.  Unless
> firmware explicitly disables PRO/100 interrupts, we can get a flood of
> interrupts when a driver attaches to an unrelated device that happens to
> share the PRO/100 IRQ.
> 
> This should resolve this "irq 11: nobody cared" bug report:
>     http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5918
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>
> Cc: John Ronciak <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>

I'm really worried that we are burdening the kernel for a very very rare 
condition.  Do we want to apply this for one stupid firmware?

Can't early userspace just run setpci to fix this one?

	Jeff