From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k: don't enable MSI, we cannot handle it yet
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:49:24 +0200
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On Friday 18 July 2008 18:44:47 Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 12:28 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > This fixes support for AR5006 chipset, which supports MSI
> 
> Sorry, I found Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt minutes after
> sending the patch.  We need to get it to the Linus' tree first, then to
> the stable tree.  I hope it won't take long.
> 
> To preempt possible questions: MSI is a nice thing, but we cannot enable
> it without changing the interrupt handler.  If we do it, we break MSI
> capable hardware.

Please include this into the patch changelog. It's highly confusing otherwise ;)

-- 
Greetings Michael.