Re: [PATCH] PCI: Mark INTx masking support of Chelsio T310 10GbE NIC as broken

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On 2012-05-28 15:21, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 02:51:25PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-05-28 14:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:02:13AM -0300, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> According to Alexey, the T310 does not properly support INTx masking as
>>>> it fails to keep the PCI_STATUS_INTERRUPT bit updated once the interrupt
>>>> is masked. Mark this adapter as broken so that pci_intx_mask_supported
>>>> won't report it as compatible.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just a thought: would be nice to have a way to discover
>>> the quirk was activated. Add an attribute so that
>>> userspace can detect and report this properly to users?
>>> Or just log a warning message ...
>>
>> pr_notice_once?
> 
> OK IMO.
> 
>> A flag for userspace would be significantly more
>> complicated (and not PCI layer hands).
> 
> Why not? I meant e.g. an attribute in pci-sysfs.

Possible. But what is the preferred way of doing this? Are there any
precedences?

Jan

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