Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932490AbWKODLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:11:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932601AbWKODLc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:11:32 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:22497 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932490AbWKODLc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:11:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Miller cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default In-Reply-To: <20061114.190036.30187059.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <455A7E21.7020701@garzik.org> <20061114.190036.30187059.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 24 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, David Miller wrote: > > > > I don't think "nice" is enough of an advantage to overcome "doesn't work > > on God knows how many systems". > > From what I see, that's not the advantage of MSI. The following > doesn't apply so well to sound, but it does apply significantly > to the networking. You're totally missing the issue. Read that sentence of mine again. Yours was still an example of "nice". And it had absolutely nothing to do with the _PROBLEM_. Linus - 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/