Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751251AbWBZGj7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:39:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751259AbWBZGj7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:39:59 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:33950 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751251AbWBZGj6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:39:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:41:12 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: hch@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, erich@areca.com.tw, arjan@infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, billion.wu@areca.com.tw, akpm@osdl.org, oliver@neukum.org Subject: Re: Areca RAID driver remaining items? Message-Id: <20060225224112.72c20f2f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060224193830.GR28587@parisc-linux.org> References: <1140458552.3495.26.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060220182045.GA1634@infradead.org> <001401c63779$12e49aa0$b100a8c0@erich2003> <20060222145733.GC16269@infradead.org> <00dc01c63842$381f9a30$b100a8c0@erich2003> <1140683157.2972.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <001901c6385e$9aee7d40$b100a8c0@erich2003> <1140695990.19361.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060224165647.GA4176@infradead.org> <20060224193830.GR28587@parisc-linux.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1933 Lines: 43 On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:38:30 -0700 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:03:47AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Please avoid that unless really nessecary. I doubt there's boards where > > > MSI would only be broken with the areca card but not with other MSI-capable > > > ones. If a board or chipset is generally broken vs MSI it should be > > > added to the global MSI blacklist. It's probably be nice to have a global > > > nomsi boot option instead of one in every driver aswell.. > > > > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/pci_nomsi.patch adds a > > global boot option to disable MSI interrupt assignments. > > I like it. How about adding pci=nomsi instead of pci_nomsi? > > --- drivers/pci/pci.c 4 Feb 2006 04:51:55 -0000 1.28 > +++ drivers/pci/pci.c 24 Feb 2006 19:33:25 -0000 > @@ -900,8 +900,12 @@ static int __devinit pci_setup(char *str > if (k) > *k++ = 0; > if (*str && (str = pcibios_setup(str)) && *str) { > - /* PCI layer options should be handled here */ > - printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", str); > + if (!strcmp(str, "nomsi")) { > + pci_msi_enable = 0; > + } else { > + printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", > + str); > + } > } > str = k; OK, updated patch for "pci=nomsi" is now at http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/pci_nomsi.patch Thanks. --- ~Randy - 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/