Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

[Dave Olson <dave.olson@qlogic.com>]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:
|  > | so clearly ipath_init_iba7220_funcs() was intended to be built and used
|  > | even if CONFIG_PCI_MSI was not defined.  From the code it looks like all
|  > | should work fine if PCI_MSI is not set, so I don't know what you mean
|  > | about conditional checks.
|  > 
|  > Actually, it wasn't.  It was a late cleanup for another problem, and
|  > we didn't worry about the other issue, and should have.
| 
| Sorry, I still don't follow.  What is the antecedent of "it"?  What was
| "the other issue"?

The CONFIG_PCI_MSI check where init_iba7220 is called.

| I'm not sure I know the right fix for the build breakage.  It seems
| there are two possibilities:
| 
|  - build the iba7220 support unconditionally (the patch I posted).

Yep; I already said I was OK with that.  It's simplest, let's go with it.

| And given that at least some device support works even if neither
| PCI_MSI nor HT_IRQ is defined, then it makes sense to me to remove that
| Kconfig dependency.

Go ahead.

Dave Olson
dave.olson@qlogic.com