From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933996AbXC0FXH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:23:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933997AbXC0FXH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:23:07 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60947 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933996AbXC0FXD (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:23:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4608AA30.1010407@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:22:56 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: David Miller , 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 References: <20070327010247.GW16477@stusta.de> <20070326.182422.115910859.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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