On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:03:47AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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.. > > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/pci_nomsi.patch adds a > global boot option to disable MSI interrupt assignments. I like it. How about adding pci=nomsi instead of pci_nomsi? --- drivers/pci/pci.c 4 Feb 2006 04:51:55 -0000 1.28 +++ drivers/pci/pci.c 24 Feb 2006 19:33:25 -0000 @@ -900,8 +900,12 @@ static int __devinit pci_setup(char *str if (k) *k++ = 0; if (*str && (str = pcibios_setup(str)) && *str) { - /* PCI layer options should be handled here */ - printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", str); + if (!strcmp(str, "nomsi")) { + pci_msi_enable = 0; + } else { + printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", + str); + } } str = k; } - : 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
