RE: [PATCH net-next 28/35] qlcnic: Use pci_enable_msix_range() instead of pci_enable_msix()

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gordeev [mailto:agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:54 PM
> To: Ben Hutchings
> Cc: linux-kernel; Himanshu Madhani; Rajesh Borundia; Shahed Shaikh; Dept-
> Eng Linux Driver; netdev; linux-pci
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 28/35] qlcnic: Use pci_enable_msix_range()
> instead of pci_enable_msix()
> 
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:48:47AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Sorry, I'm confused and this does work.  But I wonder whether it is
> > really an improvement over using the old API.
> 
> Slightly, as far as I am concerned - we just exchange tri-state oddity to re-
> enable MSI-X oddity. We're not going to improve drivers that can not work
> with any number of MSI-Xs from a range, like this one.

I will send a patch which will make use of available MSI-X number and remove the retry logic.

Thanks,
Shahed

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