On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 07:53 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:27:16PM +0530, Kashyap, Desai wrote: > > Added support for MSI enable/disable for different buses FC,SPI,SAS instead > > of having single MSI enable/disable feature. > > Why do you think you need this? > > Either the system supports MSI or it doesn't. The original reason for > only enabling MSI on SPI cards was that it reduced the number of bug > reports since FC and SAS cards are likely to be used on machines with > functional MSI. > > This is of course a horrible hack. The right thing to do is to detect > that you've never received an interrupt, disable MSI, enable regular > interrupts and try again. Right ... we actually had agreement on this and a set of patches to implement some of it that went via the PCI list ... I'll see if I can find them. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
