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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	bunk@stusta.de, gregkh@suse.de, 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: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:22:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4608AA30.1010407@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14po71ir7.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> aka.  Drivers have started supporting MSI, People have started using
> and testing MSI, and there has been MSI maintenance.  People care.

Agreed, well put.


> The most recent regressions involving MSI have been fixes propagating
> their way through the kernel, and I can't think of a one of them
> that was MSI specific.  Just that the bug didn't happen to show
> up clearly without MSI enabled.

Yep.


> So default it to off, although I suspect we are approaching the
> point where it would actually be safe to default it to on.  We
> need a kernel release that doesn't have msi issues yet.

Now that we are finally getting a handle on the MSI bumps-in-the-road, 
IMO it would be counterproductive to default it to 'off' now.

	Jeff



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27  5:23 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
2007-03-27  3:13   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-27  3:48     ` Michael Ellerman
2007-03-27  5:22     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-03-27 13:53       ` Eric W. Biederman

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