Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:22:56 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > aka. Drivers have started supporting MSI, People have started using > and testing MSI, and there has been MSI maintenance. People care.
Agreed, well put.
> The most recent regressions involving MSI have been fixes propagating > their way through the kernel, and I can't think of a one of them > that was MSI specific. Just that the bug didn't happen to show > up clearly without MSI enabled.
Yep.
> So default it to off, although I suspect we are approaching the > point where it would actually be safe to default it to on. We > need a kernel release that doesn't have msi issues yet.
Now that we are finally getting a handle on the MSI bumps-in-the-road, IMO it would be counterproductive to default it to 'off' now.
Jeff
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