Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] uio: add ioctl support

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Tue Oct 06 2015 - 10:30:42 EST


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:19:22PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:33:56AM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> > the solution u propose should be a matter of a separate patch and is
> > obviously orthogonal to this series.
>
> Doesn't work this way, sorry. You want a patch enabling MSI merged,
> you need to secure the MSI configuration.
>
MSI can be enabled right now without the patch by writing directly into
PCI bar. The only thing this patch adds is forwarding the interrupt to
an eventfd.

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Gleb.
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