From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:10:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464B5734.2070904@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464B55E1.8040501@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>
>>Some more of my paranoid questions :)
>>
>>So, if a driver tries to enable MSI and that is unsuccessful (I'll try
>>to avoid using the possibly loaded term "fails") shouldn't that show-up
>>_somewhere_?
>
>
> It already does -- in /proc/interrupts.
But that is rather incidental isn't it? Would some sort of system health
monitor be likely to be checking that for interrupt flavors? And just looking
at /proc/interrupts, while it tells you what sort of interrupt is being used, it
doesn't (IIRC) say anything about what sort of interrupt the driver _tried_ to use.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 8:31 [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup Auke Kok
2007-05-16 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 15:35 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-16 18:41 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-16 19:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-16 19:10 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-05-16 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 19:57 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-16 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 19:27 ` David Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-16 8:49 Auke Kok
2007-05-18 0:46 ` Jeff Garzik
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