Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:14:57 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Areca RAID driver remaining items? |
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:03:47AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Please avoid that unless really nessecary. I doubt there's boards where > > > MSI would only be broken with the areca card but not with other MSI-capable > > > ones. If a board or chipset is generally broken vs MSI it should be > > > added to the global MSI blacklist. It's probably be nice to have a global > > > nomsi boot option instead of one in every driver aswell.. > > > > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/pci_nomsi.patch adds a > > global boot option to disable MSI interrupt assignments. > > I like it. How about adding pci=nomsi instead of pci_nomsi?
Yes, that's probably better. Thanks for the change.
> --- drivers/pci/pci.c 4 Feb 2006 04:51:55 -0000 1.28 > +++ drivers/pci/pci.c 24 Feb 2006 19:33:25 -0000 > @@ -900,8 +900,12 @@ static int __devinit pci_setup(char *str > if (k) > *k++ = 0; > if (*str && (str = pcibios_setup(str)) && *str) { > - /* PCI layer options should be handled here */ > - printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", str); > + if (!strcmp(str, "nomsi")) { > + pci_msi_enable = 0; > + } else { > + printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", > + str); > + } > } > str = k; > } > >
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