Re: Options for handling buggy PCI/PCI-X hardware when MSI isenabled

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:

> And worse one has to submit patches for the core kernel all the time.
> And it's a single table, which means there will be lots of conflicts 
> when merging patches.
> 
> I think the new API approach is much better. Best would be if there
> was a relatively simple standard way to add it to drivers  (like a 
> standard module option). Then one could add it to a lot of drivers 
> with default to off. Users can test then and if it works the default
> can be changed.

Just to add another point for the per driver/new API approach, you can 
debug on a per device basis much easier whilst having MSI functioning on 
other devices.

	Zwane

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