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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Nguyen, Tom L" <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on using MSI in PCI driver
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:55:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52d63rmkpq.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622195151.GA8809@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:51:51 +0100")

    Christoph> Why do you think you want "failure" in that string?
    Christoph> It's a name that can be used to easily identify the
    Christoph> MMIO region, and your sentence is a) too long and b)
    Christoph> doesn't make sense (at least to me, maybe I'm missing
    Christoph> something important).

Agreed (and I think Long agrees now too).

    Christoph> Why not just "MSI-X PBA"?

Just to be clear ... it's not actually the PBA, so I don't think
that's a good idea.  I believe my suggestion of "MSI-X vector table,"
which Long accepted, is the right name.

 - Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 18:08 Question on using MSI in PCI driver Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 18:26 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-22 19:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-22 19:55   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 18:43 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 15:24 Nguyen, Tom L
2004-06-22 17:49 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-22  2:22 Roland Dreier
2004-06-22  3:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-22  3:54   ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-22  4:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-22  4:04       ` Roland Dreier

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