From: Michael Ellerman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:20:35 +1100 > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 14:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Michael Ellerman wrote: >> > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 16:25 -0700, David Miller wrote: >> > > From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:38:53 +0100 > >> > Ethtool would be nice, but only for network drivers. Is there a generic >> > solution, quirks are obviously not keeping people happy. >> >> Since this is (normally) a property of the system, pci=nomsi is the >> generic solution. > > Sort of, it's a big hammer. Did all these driver writers not know about > pci=nomsi or did they prefer to add a parameter to their driver for some > reason? Every time I've actually done the work to try and track down the true issue, it always turned out to be a PCI chipset problem rather than a device specific issue. -- 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
