[PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:31:05 -0600 (CST)
> Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> >From 819ad3ed4660f4238e053728a8b5aa93d22b13d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:13:53 -0600
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] irq: Maintain user set affinity
>>
>> This addresses a regression in that if a user specified an affinity
>> for an interrupt that affinity information would get reset between
>> a request_irq(), free_irq() and request_irq() for the same irq.
>>
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>
> Are you able to identify when this regression occurred?  It isn't
> immediately obvious to me.
>
> If the regression is present in 2.6.27 or earlier, do you think we
> should backport the fix?  If so, a different patch would be needed due
> to the presence of

it seems that is not a regression...

YH