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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: somnath.kotur@emulex.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] be2net: Adding an option to use INTx instead of MSI-X
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:09:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101025.120943.189699949.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101025111235.GA2024@emulex.com>

From: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@emulex.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:42:35 +0530

> By default, be2net uses MSIx wherever possible.
> Adding a module parameter to use INTx for users who do not want to use MSIx.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@emulex.com>

Either add a new ethtool flag, or use the PCI subsystem facilities
for tweaking things to implement this.

Do not use a module option, otherwise every other networking driver
author will get the same "cool" idea, give the module option
different names, and the resulting user experience is terrible.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 11:12 [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] be2net: Adding an option to use INTx instead of MSI-X Somnath Kotur
2010-10-25 19:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-25 22:38   ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-25 23:25     ` David Miller
2010-10-26  5:24       ` Somnath.Kotur
2010-10-26  6:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2010-10-26 13:32         ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-26 23:20           ` Michael Ellerman
2010-10-27 15:46             ` David Miller
2010-10-28  5:37               ` Grant Grundler
2010-10-27 15:45         ` David Miller
2010-10-30 23:21         ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-11-03 12:45           ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-03 15:28             ` David Miller

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