From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933895AbXC0BDM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:03:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933880AbXC0BDA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:03:00 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:35472 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933895AbXC0BCn (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:02:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Eric W. Biederman" , gregkh@suse.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL Message-ID: <20070327010247.GW16477@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even regressions due to: - core kernel bugs, - device driver bugs and - hardware bugs OTOH, MSI doesn't bring any real advantages for most users. Let's therefore mark PCI_MSI as EXPERIMENTAL. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/drivers/pci/Kconfig.old 2007-03-26 21:04:11.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/drivers/pci/Kconfig 2007-03-26 21:04:29.000000000 +0200 @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ # PCI configuration # config PCI_MSI - bool "Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X)" - depends on PCI + bool "Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL depends on (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) || IA64 || (PPC_MERGE && PPC_RTAS) || SPARC64 help This allows device drivers to enable MSI (Message Signaled