From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:03:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] msi abstractions and support for altix Message-Id: <20060110170339.GA2567@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <20051222201651.2019.37913.96422@lnx-maule.americas.sgi.com> <20051222202259.GA4959@suse.de> <20051222202627.GI17552@sgi.com> <20051222203415.GA28240@suse.de> <20051222203824.GJ17552@sgi.com> <20051222205023.GK2361@parisc-linux.org> <20060103032249.GA4957@sgi.com> <20060103060719.GA1845@suse.de> <20060110170032.GC18399@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060110170032.GC18399@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Maule Cc: Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck > Ok, looks like it's going to be a bit until I have time to work on the > vector allocation stuff. > > In the mean time, would folks be recepteive to taking this portion of the > initial patchset: > > [PATCH 1/4] msi archetecture init hook > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/21/168 > > This would at least give us a graceful pci_enable_msi() failure on altix > until I find the time to work on the other stuff. Personally I think your patchkit should just go in after all the other comments have addresses [1]. It's a huge improvement over the mess that's there currently. [1] I don't remember if you posted a patchkit addressing everything else yet, so maybe it's been done already.