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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:49:17 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060929.154917.125894679.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159565963.3741.23.camel@rh4>

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:39:23 -0700

> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:28 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Michael Chan wrote:
> > > AMD believes this incompatibility is unique to the 5706, and
> > > prefers to locally disable MSI rather than globally disabling it
> > > using pci_msi_quirk.
> > 
> > Why is it unique to the 5706?  Is this just a guess on AMD and 
> > Broadcom's part?
> > 
> I just took AMD's word for it.  It doesn't matter to me whether we
> disable it locally or globally.  Since this is AMD's bridge, I just
> follow their recommendation.  They probably haven't seen this issue on
> any other devices except ours.

I really think this is a reasonable thing to do.

It's absolutely rediculious to disable MSI for every card just
because one decided to use a masked 64-bit transaction for
what's supposed to be a 32-bit one.

Jeff, I totally understand your knee-jerk reaction to per-device MSI
validation checks, but in this case I find that knee-jerk reaction
to be totally unreasonable. :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-29 21:07 [PATCH][BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present Michael Chan
2006-09-29 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 21:39   ` Michael Chan
2006-09-29 22:49     ` David Miller [this message]
2006-09-29 23:00       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 23:08         ` David Miller
2006-09-29 23:15           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 23:27             ` Michael Chan
2006-09-29 23:29             ` David Miller
2006-09-30  0:38               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-30  1:22                 ` David Miller
2006-09-29 23:46           ` Rick Jones
2006-09-30  0:16         ` Roland Dreier
2006-09-30  0:07 ` David Miller
2006-09-30 10:13 ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-30 18:09   ` Michael Chan

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