David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The x86 system designers decided to implement multi-MSI in an > inconvenient way, it is not a "crap hardware design", merely > some (unfortunately common) implementations of it happen to be. To be clear I was referring to the PCI spec that describes multi-MSI as a crap hardware design. At the very least you are left with the problem of allocating multiple contiguous destinations. Which has the potential to create fragmentation on all supported platforms. Optional mask bits are also nasty. My honest opinion is that the should have deprecated multi-msi after the introduction of the msi-x specification. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html