On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:59:50AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2006-02-23 at 17:50 +0800, erich wrote: > > But unfortunately I found some mainboards will hang up if I always enable > > this function in my lab. > > To avoid this issue, I do an option for this case. > > > > But Christoph Hellwig give me comment with it. > > > Another thing you can also do for many of these cases is to use either > the PCI or DMI interfaces to identify the problem board and > automatically set the option as well. > > There are two ways to do this. One is Please avoid that unless really nessecary. I doubt there's boards where MSI would only be broken with the areca card but not with other MSI-capable ones. If a board or chipset is generally broken vs MSI it should be added to the global MSI blacklist. It's probably be nice to have a global nomsi boot option instead of one in every driver aswell.. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
