[PATCH] powerpc: Make OF irq map code detect more error cases

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Aug 26 03:30:40 EST 2006


> Device-tree bugs on js20 with some versions of SLOF were causing the
> interrupt for IDE to not be parsed correctly and fail to boot. This
> patch adds a bit more sanity checking to the parser to detet some of
> those errors and fail instead of returning bogus informations. The
> powerpc PCI code can then trigger a fallback that works on those
> machines.

Quite similar to my patch you have been refusing, so I'll just

ACK

it, irrespective of if we need it or not (anymore) -- it's a good,
useful, cheap sanity check.  The patch looks good, too.


Segher




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