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SubjectRe: pci_enable_msi() for everyone?
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:22:03PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:26:32PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >
> > davej> What if MSI support has been disabled in the bridge due to
> > davej> some quirk (like the recent AMD 8111 quirk) ? Maybe the
> > davej> above function should check pci_msi_enable as well ?
> >
> > Greg> Yes, you are correct. I said it wasn't tested :)
> >
> > Huh? If a host bridge doesn't support MSI, and a device below it has
> > its MSI capability enabled, we're in big trouble. Because that device
> > is going to send interrupt messages whether the bridge likes it or
> > not.
>
> No, that device would never get MSI enabled on it. See the patch I
> posted to make sure I didn't get it wrong...
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

How are we handling the case where a device has multiple MSI messages.
Is any driver interaction needed for that? Will this change affect it?
I haven't had a chance to look through the MSI code yet.

Thanks,
Adam
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