[PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon-ethernet: don't assume that CPU 0 is special

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Sat Sep 28 21:15:24 UTC 2013


Am 28.09.2013 21:50, schrieb Aaro Koskinen:
> Currently the driver assumes that CPU 0 is handling all the hard IRQs.
> This is wrong in Linux SMP systems where user is allowed to assign to
> hardware IRQs to any CPU. The driver will stop working if user sets
> smp_affinity so that interrupts end up being handled by other than CPU
> 0. The patch fixes that.

You are right, sorry. I somehow mixed up the function names.

Thanks,
//richard


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