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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:20:17 +0100

> There is a question if we can predict in ->probe() MSI-X should be
> successfully enabled in ->ndo_open() for probed hardware. If so,
> then it could go e.g. like this:

We never can know this.

Another device driver can eat up all the MSI-X vectors in the PCI
domain before we make the request_irq() calls in ->open().