From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780. Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070906.040235.71121480.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1189022828.4960.2.camel@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@greyhouse.net To: mchan@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-98-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.98]:59494 "EHLO picasso.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751008AbXIFLCk (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:02:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1189022828.4960.2.camel@dell> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "Michael Chan" Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:07:08 -0700 > [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780. > > A hardware bug was revealed after a recent PCI MSI patch was made to > always disable legacy INTX when enabling MSI. The 5714/5780 chips > will not generate MSI when INTX is disabled, causing MSI failure > messages to be reported, and another patch was made to workaround the > problem by disabling MSI on ServerWorks HT1000 bridge chips commonly > found with the 5714. > > We workaround this chip bug by enabling INTX after we enable MSI and > after we resume from suspend. > > Update version to 3.81. > > This problem was discovered by David Miller. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Thanks a lot Michael, I'll apply this and work on reverting that incorrect MSI chipset quirk too.