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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: "Nguyen, Tom L" <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:51:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52hdt3o50p.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7AB9DA4D0B1F344BF2489FA165E5024057E4EF2@orsmsx404.amr.corp.intel.com> (Tom L. Nguyen's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:47:53 -0700")

    Tom> The intent of msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors() is to support
    Tom> hot-removed operation. This function is not for a device
    Tom> driver to call and should not be exported. I acknowledged the
    Tom> problem of the MSI-X region being only released in
    Tom> msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors(). I'm in a progress of updating
    Tom> the existing MSI-X code.

Do you have any plans for when this should be fixed?  Right now, with
the standard kernel, if I unload and then reload my driver module,
setting up MSI-X fails the second time through because the core has
not cleaned up the memory region from the first time.

 - Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 15:47 [PATCH] Export msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 17:51 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22  2:22 Question on using MSI in PCI driver Roland Dreier
2004-06-22  4:03 ` [PATCH] Export msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors Roland Dreier
2004-06-22  8:45   ` Christoph Hellwig

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