Re: /proc/pci deprecation?

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:54, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  - we should _never_ update the PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE register, because it
>    destroys boot loader information (the same way we need to not overwrite
>    BIOS extended areas and ACPI areas etc in order to be able to reboot
>    cleanly)

I wonder if this is why we have all these problems with VIA chipset
interrupt handling. According to VIA docs they _do_ use
PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE on integrated devices to select the IRQ routing
between APIC and PCI/ISA etc, as well as 0 meaning "IRQ disabled"

Alan