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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/8] pci: provide sensible irq vector alloc/free routines
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 08:11:24AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > FYI, I spent some time trying to convert more drivers to this, and
> > I think we'll need an additional flag to skip MSI or MSI-X as there
> > is plenty of hardware claiming support in the capabilities flag,
> > but not actually supporting one of them.
>
> Or maybe add a "pdev->msix_broken" bit and quirks to set it? Or if
> pci_fixup_final quirks merely cleared pdev->msix_cap, I think the PCI
> core would never try to enable MSI-X.

Can't say I'm excited about quirks - now we'd have to patch core
code for something that previously was entirely in the driver.

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