From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic msi bug fixes..
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:52:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070302205240.GB24716@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1tzx7l7z2.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:24:17PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> While looking at some other irq issues I realized that the current msi code
> has a serious issue in that we don't have support for masking msi interrupts
> on all variations of the msi capabilities.
>
> Closing that hole is simple, but it requires the msi enable/disable
> logic to be sorted out. Which is a little more complicated...
>
> These are moderately simples fixes so the should be safe for 2.6.21.
Unless these fix a reported bug, I'd like to hold on to these and wait
for 2.6.22 so they get some testing in a few -mm releases.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-02 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 19:24 [PATCH 0/3] Basic msi bug fixes Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-27 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] msi: Sanely support hardware level msi disabling Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-27 19:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] msi: Fixup the msi enable/disable logic Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-27 19:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] msi: Support masking msi irqs without a mask bit Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-02 2:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] msi: Fixup the msi enable/disable logic Michael Ellerman
2007-03-07 5:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-07 8:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-03-02 20:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
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