Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:19:49 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: pci_enable_msi() for everyone? |
| |
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:23:17PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > Greg> Motherboard quirks are one thing. Broken devices are a > Greg> totally different thing. If there are too many of them, > Greg> then the current situation is acceptable to me. Does ib > Greg> have devices that will break with MSI? > > Yes, I believe some versions of the firmware for Mellanox HCAs have > problems with MSI.
Ick ick ick, and people think writing drivers is "easy"...
> Greg> In looking at that, I don't see a way to get rid of the msix > Greg> stuff. So that's probably just going to stay the same. > > OK -- we'll just have to make sure that the switch from MSI mode to > MSI-X mode is implementated correctly.
Hm good point, I think I got that wrong in my patch, let me go fix that up...
thanks,
greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |