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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, Jeff.Wiedemeier@hp.com,
	willy@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.5] tg3.c: pci_{save,restore}_extended_state
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:51:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E31C36A.7040000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030124.143252.97527503.davem@redhat.com>

David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
>    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 01:41:02 +0300
>    
>    I don't understand the issue, really. The config register says:
>    "MSIs are enabled". Which means: "My platform is *really* going to
>    use MSI". Why do you want to ignore that?

Let us define "platform."  If you mean ia32 or alpha or sparc64, yes 
this is a quirk.  If you mean tg3, no, this is not a quirk.


> I see, why not code up a generic pci_using_msi(pdev) that
> does this?


Great minds think alike :)  This was going to be my suggestion:
call pci_using_msi(pdev), and require that it be called before 
pci_enable_device().

This fits Jeff's "disabling MSI at config time" AFAICS...

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-24 18:27 [patch 2.5] tg3.c: pci_{save,restore}_extended_state Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-24 19:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-24 19:34   ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 20:00   ` Wiedemeier, Jeff
2003-01-24 19:53     ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 20:04       ` Wiedemeier, Jeff
2003-01-24 20:05     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-24 20:24       ` Wiedemeier, Jeff
2003-01-24 20:34         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-24 20:46           ` Wiedemeier, Jeff
2003-01-24 20:51             ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 21:33               ` Wiedemeier, Jeff
2003-01-24 21:34                 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 22:41                   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-24 22:32                     ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 22:51                       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-01-25  0:33                       ` Wiedemeier, Jeff
2003-01-25  1:42                         ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 22:56                 ` Jeff Garzik

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