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SubjectRE: [RFC PATCH] PCI: remove access to pci_[enable|disable]_msi() for drivers - take 2
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On Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:21 PM Greg KH wrote:
> However, now that I've messed around with the MSI-X logic in the IB
> driver, I'm thinking that this whole thing is just pointless, and I
> should just drop it and we should stick with the current way of
enabling
> MSI only if the driver wants it. If you look at the logic in the
mthca
> driver you'll see what I mean.
>
>So, anyone else think this is a good idea? Votes for me to just drop
it
>and go back to hacking on the driver core instead?

I vote "no change".

> Oh, and in looking at the drivers/pci/msi.c file, it could use some
> cleanups to make it smaller and a bit less complex. I've also seen
some
> complaints that it is very arch specific (x86 based). But as no other
> arches seem to want to support MSI, I don't really see any need to
split
> it up. Any comments about this?

Agree.

Thanks,
Long

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