Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261161AbTENTum (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 15:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261222AbTENTum (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 15:50:42 -0400 Received: from modemcable204.207-203-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.203.207.204]:32385 "EHLO montezuma.mastecende.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261161AbTENTul (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 15:50:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:54:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo X-X-Sender: zwane@montezuma.mastecende.com To: "Nakajima, Jun" cc: "Nguyen, Tom L" , "" , "Saxena, Sunil" , "Mallick, Asit K" , "Carbonari, Steven" Subject: RE: RFC Proposal to enable MSI support in Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <3014AAAC8E0930438FD38EBF6DCEB56401E451D2@fmsmsx407.fm.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <3014AAAC8E0930438FD38EBF6DCEB56401E451D2@fmsmsx407.fm.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 843 Lines: 21 On Wed, 14 May 2003, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > That's a good idea, and that's the way we did this (we added MSI > support on top of the vector-based indexing). If people are interested in > the vector-based indexing (i.e. provide the vector number to device > drivers (non-legacy drivers only) instead of IRQ) for some other uses, we > would like to discuss possible cleaner implementations. > > Long will post a patch containing the vector-based indexing part only. Thanks! It'd be a lot easier to test the core changes too. What do you mean by non legacy? Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/