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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:00:25 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PCI] Check that MWI bit really did get
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Andrew Morton writes:

> If the drivers doesn't care and if it makes no difference to performance
> then just delete the call to pci_set_mwi().
> 
> But if MWI _does_ make a difference to performance then we should tell
> someone that it isn't working rather than silently misbehaving?

That sounds like we need a printk inside pci_set_mwi then, rather than
adding a printk to every single caller.

Paul.
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