From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>,
Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
shemminger@osdl.org, csnook@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
atl1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:34:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070123133409.17a32128@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B67F29.4010703@garzik.org>
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:33:29 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > IMHO the MSI disabling should be removed from drivers and be done
> > in the PCI core.
>
> That is the consensus opinion.
>
> Currently drivers implement the MSI tests because the core PCI code
> hasn't been up to snuff. I (and others) have been discouraging that,
> but when a user faces a choice between working and non-working network,
> the pragmatic solution wins.
>
> All efforts to get us to the point where we can remove the MSI tests
> from drivers are strongly supported...
>
> Jeff
So far, either MSI works for all devices or is broken, so it makes
sense to have a "msi=off" boot option (if there isn't already)
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-21 21:07 [PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver Jay Cliburn
2007-01-22 2:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-22 3:33 ` Jay Cliburn
2007-01-22 20:00 ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-01-23 19:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-23 21:19 ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-01-27 21:02 ` Jay Cliburn
2007-01-27 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-27 22:05 ` Jay Cliburn
2007-01-27 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-23 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-23 21:34 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-01-23 21:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-23 22:06 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-11 0:43 Jay Cliburn
2007-01-11 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-19 3:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-19 20:31 Jay Cliburn
2006-11-20 12:40 ` Chris Snook
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