On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 08:47:16PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:06:07PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > I don't think it's necessary / a good idea to try to support > > everything. Just following the spec would be fine. If that doesn't > > work for too many devices, maybe just do one fallback? > > Calling pci_enable_msi_block_part() in a loop may seem not that terrible > if you think of the original interface - pci_enable_msi_block(). If we > were to enable multiple MSIs using that one we still had to use it pretty > much the same way ;) I don't know. The thing is, do we even want to meddle with controllers which only accept a value which isn't the value specified in the spec or the maximum value described as supported? It's icky and we are far better of playing it safe. This has the possibility of breaking boot on many configurations. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
