[PATCH] powerpc: Don't get PCI IRQ from OF for devices with no IRQ

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Sun Oct 8 19:42:51 EST 2006


On Thu, Oct 05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> This patch adds checking of the PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN register before
> using standard OF parsing to retreive PCI interrupts. The reason is
> that some PCI devices may have no PCI interrupt, though they may have
> interrupts attached via other means. In this case, we shall not use
> irq->pdev, but device-specific code can later retreive those interrupts
> instead.
> 
> Without that patch, Maple and derivatives don't get the right interrupt
> for the second IDE channel as the linux IDE code fallsback to the PCI
> irq instead of trying to use the legacy ones for the on-board controller
> (which has no PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN). Having no PCI IRQ assign to it (as it
> doesn't request any) fixes it.

This breaks at least G5, IDE is probed twice, the first try uses IRQ 0.
SATA doesnt get an interrupt either.



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