Re: [PATCH] pci: enable MSI on 8132

James Bottomley
2009-02-18T19:15:00Z

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:08 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >> Do we not need mpt-fix-enable-lsi-sas-to-use-msi-as-default.patch as
> >> well, to fix this regression?
> >
> > No ... it's a separate issue. MSI was enabled for fusion SAS in 2.6.26;
> > the problem msi patch which the above corrects actually has the effect
> > of disabling MSI for fusion and went into 2.6.29-rc2, which isn't a
> > kernel that's been tested here.
> >
>
> so for 2.6.26, 27, 28 need pci-enable-msi-on-8132.patch

I'm a bit lost with the names, but if that's the PCI quirk fix, then yes

> 2.6.29 need pci-enable-msi-on-8132.patch and mpt-fix-enable-lsi-sas-to-use-msi-as-default.patch

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.

James