From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Nguyen, Tom L" <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on using MSI in PCI driver
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:51:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040622195151.GA8809@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7AB9DA4D0B1F344BF2489FA165E5024057E5196@orsmsx404.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 22, 2004 Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> >Do you think the msi subsystem should use a different name for the
> >MSI-X memory region ("MSI-X iomap Failure" seems very strange to me).
>
> What do you think of "Failure to request the MMIO address space of the
> MSI-X PBA"?
> Or what name do you suggest?
Why do you think you want "failure" in that string? It's a name that
can be used to easily identify the MMIO region, and your sentence is a)
too long and b) doesn't make sense (at least to me, maybe I'm missing
something important).
Why not just "MSI-X PBA"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 18:08 Question on using MSI in PCI driver Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 18:26 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-22 19:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-22 19:55 ` Roland Dreier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 18:43 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 15:24 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 17:49 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-22 2:22 Roland Dreier
2004-06-22 3:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-22 3:54 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-22 4:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-22 4:04 ` Roland Dreier
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