Re: [PATCH] MSI: check for BIOS assigned addresses

[Ingo Molnar]

* Daniel Yeisley <dan.yeisley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When creating MSI addresses the kernel makes them up and 
> writes them to the hardware without first checking for what 
> the system BIOS may have assigned.  The patch below checks for 
> already assigned values, and leaves them alone if they exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@xxxxxxxxxx>

What happens without this fix - do you get non-working cards? 
Boot hang? Or a suboptimal layout?

	Ingo
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