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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:28:15 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat
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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>,
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       Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables.
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On 05/25/2007 11:17 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> MSI appears to have enough problems that enabling it in a kernel
> that is supposed to run lots of different hardware (like a distro
> kernel) is a recipe for disaster.

Ubuntu and Fedora have disabled it and added a "pci=msi" option
to enable it if required.
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