Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761892AbXEYOmq (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 10:42:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753284AbXEYOmj (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 10:42:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35963 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752560AbXEYOmi (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 10:42:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4656F5BD.40800@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:42:05 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Andi Kleen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jay Cliburn , Grzegorz Krzystek , Andrew Morton , ninex@o2.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Michael Ellerman , David Miller , Tony Luck , len.brown@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] msi: Add support for the Intel chipsets that support MSI. References: <200705122146.l4CLkH6q012322@fire-2.osdl.org> <200705250738.57066.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: 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: 1099 Lines: 26 On 05/25/2007 02:10 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> This patch should be safe. The anecdotal evidence is that when dealing >>> with MSI the Intel chipsets just work. If we find some buggy ones >>> changing the list won't be hard. >> The FADT bit should be probably checked anyways. > > Sure if we have a way to check I have no problem, although I tend to > trust the hardware more. > Already in 2.6.22: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f8993aff8b4de0317c6e081802ca5c86c449fef2 Commit: f8993aff8b4de0317c6e081802ca5c86c449fef2 Parent: a23cf14b161b8deeb0f701d577a0e8be6365e247 Author: Shaohua Li AuthorDate: Wed Apr 25 11:05:12 2007 +0800 Committer: Len Brown CommitDate: Wed Apr 25 01:13:47 2007 -0400 ACPI: Disable MSI on request of FADT - 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/