From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933949AbXC0C1J (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:27:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933951AbXC0C1J (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:27:09 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55070 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933949AbXC0C1I (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:27:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:26:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: David Miller 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 Message-ID: <20070327022657.GA24112@suse.de> References: <20070327010247.GW16477@stusta.de> <20070326.182422.115910859.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070326.182422.115910859.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:24:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Adrian Bunk > 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 > > 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