Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

[Jeff Garzik]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> aka.  Drivers have started supporting MSI, People have started using
> and testing MSI, and there has been MSI maintenance.  People care.

Agreed, well put.


> The most recent regressions involving MSI have been fixes propagating
> their way through the kernel, and I can't think of a one of them
> that was MSI specific.  Just that the bug didn't happen to show
> up clearly without MSI enabled.

Yep.


> So default it to off, although I suspect we are approaching the
> point where it would actually be safe to default it to on.  We
> need a kernel release that doesn't have msi issues yet.

Now that we are finally getting a handle on the MSI bumps-in-the-road, 
IMO it would be counterproductive to default it to 'off' now.

	Jeff


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