From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci-quirks: disable MSI on RS400-200 and RS480, take #2 Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:23:54 -0400 Message-ID: <46421FCA.7010807@garzik.org> References: <4641BD26.1020501@gmail.com> <4641EAA5.4030409@redhat.com> <4641EDDC.1020102@gmail.com> <4641EF46.2090506@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46573 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752979AbXEITYA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 15:24:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4641EF46.2090506@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Tejun Heo , Greg K-H , linux-kernel , IDE/ATA development list , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mat=ED=ADas_Alejandro_Torres?= Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >>> FWIW several distros have turned off MSI by default and added >>> a "pci=msi" option to enable it. >> Yeah, it seem to cause a lot of problems on certain chips but I think >> the correct path is to add PCI quirks for those. Most MSI problems I've >> seen are on these ATI chips. Do you happen to know any other? > > We had devices that didn't do MSI right, e.g. forcedeth and others I > can't recall now. AFAIK that's a broken diagnosis. It's the system, not the device, that is problematic. Jeff