Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265228AbUFVS2T (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:28:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265222AbUFVSUI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:20:08 -0400 Received: from umhlanga.stratnet.net ([12.162.17.40]:15689 "EHLO umhlanga.STRATNET.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265089AbUFVRxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:53:47 -0400 To: "Nguyen, Tom L" Cc: , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:51:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Tom L. Nguyen's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:47:53 -0700") Message-ID: <52hdt3o50p.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jun 2004 17:51:18.0694 (UTC) FILETIME=[857F1460:01C45881] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 18 Tom> The intent of msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors() is to support Tom> hot-removed operation. This function is not for a device Tom> driver to call and should not be exported. I acknowledged the Tom> problem of the MSI-X region being only released in Tom> msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors(). I'm in a progress of updating Tom> the existing MSI-X code. Do you have any plans for when this should be fixed? Right now, with the standard kernel, if I unload and then reload my driver module, setting up MSI-X fails the second time through because the core has not cleaned up the memory region from the first time. - Roland - 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/