Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265109AbUFVTxs (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:53:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265114AbUFVTxV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:53:21 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:18571 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265663AbUFVTv4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:51:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:51:51 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Nguyen, Tom L" Cc: Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on using MSI in PCI driver Message-ID: <20040622195151.GA8809@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Nguyen, Tom L" , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 22 On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Nguyen, Tom L wrote: > On Tuesday, June 22, 2004 Roland Dreier wrote: > > >Do you think the msi subsystem should use a different name for the > >MSI-X memory region ("MSI-X iomap Failure" seems very strange to me). > > What do you think of "Failure to request the MMIO address space of the > MSI-X PBA"? > Or what name do you suggest? Why do you think you want "failure" in that string? It's a name that can be used to easily identify the MMIO region, and your sentence is a) too long and b) doesn't make sense (at least to me, maybe I'm missing something important). Why not just "MSI-X PBA"? - 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/