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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msi-x: let drivers retry when not enough vectors
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 17:22:40 -0700
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On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:25:00AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Sheng is absolutely right, that's a horrid API.

But the API already exists, and is in use by 27 drivers.  If this were a
change to the API, I'd be against it, but it is the existing API.