The current MSI-HOWTO.txt says that device drivers should not request the memory space that contains MSI-X tables. This is because the original MSI-X implementation did a request_mem_region() on this space, but that code was removed long ago (in the pre-git era, in fact). Years after the code was changed, we might as well clean up the documention to avoid a confusing mention of requesting regions: drivers using MSI-X can just use pci_request_regions() just like any other driver, and so there's no need for MSI-HOWTO.txt to talk about this at all. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt index a51f693..256defd 100644 --- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -236,10 +236,8 @@ software system can set different pages for controlling accesses to the MSI-X structure. The implementation of MSI support requires the PCI subsystem, not a device driver, to maintain full control of the MSI-X table/MSI-X PBA (Pending Bit Array) and MMIO address space of the MSI-X -table/MSI-X PBA. A device driver is prohibited from requesting the MMIO -address space of the MSI-X table/MSI-X PBA. Otherwise, the PCI subsystem -will fail enabling MSI-X on its hardware device when it calls the function -pci_enable_msix(). +table/MSI-X PBA. A device driver should not access the MMIO address +space of the MSI-X table/MSI-X PBA. 5.3.2 API pci_enable_msix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
