From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: bunk@stusta.de, ebiederm@xmission.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:26:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070327022657.GA24112@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070326.182422.115910859.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:24:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200
>
> > 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 <bunk@stusta.de>
>
> This is a good way to ensure that the code doesn't get tested
> enough to ever fix the problems.
I agree, we need to leave it as it is. Now that Vista is out with
support for MSI, we will start to get more hardware that actually works
properly with it...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 1:02 [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL Adrian Bunk
2007-03-27 1:24 ` David Miller
2007-03-27 2:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-03-27 3:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-27 3:48 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-03-27 5:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-27 13:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
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