Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265482AbUFVUML (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:12:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265199AbUFVUKj (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:10:39 -0400 Received: from umhlanga.stratnet.net ([12.162.17.40]:2909 "EHLO umhlanga.STRATNET.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265132AbUFVUCM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:02:12 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Nguyen, Tom L" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on using MSI in PCI driver X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20040622195151.GA8809@infradead.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:55:13 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20040622195151.GA8809@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:51:51 +0100") Message-ID: <52d63rmkpq.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 19:55:13.0569 (UTC) FILETIME=[D506F910:01C45892] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 20 Christoph> Why do you think you want "failure" in that string? Christoph> It's a name that can be used to easily identify the Christoph> MMIO region, and your sentence is a) too long and b) Christoph> doesn't make sense (at least to me, maybe I'm missing Christoph> something important). Agreed (and I think Long agrees now too). Christoph> Why not just "MSI-X PBA"? Just to be clear ... it's not actually the PBA, so I don't think that's a good idea. I believe my suggestion of "MSI-X vector table," which Long accepted, is the right name. - 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/