David Miller wrote: > > The generic PCI layer very well can turn off MSI on all devices > when it starts up or a device is plugged in. > > That's all he is doing. > > Drivers essentially expect that the device comes up in INTX mode > when the driver probes the device. All his change is doing > is forcing that to be true, and there is no reason the generic > PCI code can't do that. > I think there may be more issues after thinking about it some more. The device is essentially still active at this time. The PCI layer can turn off certain things, but enabling INTX can lead to "irq x: nobody cared" if the driver is not ready for it. The device really needs to be reset by the driver to be totally reliable. -- 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
