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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: enable MSI on 8132
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:12:57 -0500
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James Bottomley wrote:
> Like I said, I'm happy to have MSI completely disabled until LSI wants
> to comment, so no ... only the PCI quirk fix.  The true fix is to have
> the drivers participate in dynamic testing of MSI IRQ routing, but I've
> somewhat lost sight of that.

That's not really a fix at all, just additional, unneeded overhead for 
99% of users.  We don't need our drivers bloated with self-check code 
for all the components in our various computer chips...

	Jeff