Return-path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:41618 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754698AbYGRS3g (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:29:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:29:30 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Nick Kossifidis Cc: Pavel Roskin , ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ath5k: don't enable MSI, we cannot handle it yet Message-ID: <20080718182930.GA30077@khazad-dum.debian.net> (sfid-20080718_202940_023832_71D88B60) References: <20080718162855.22182.97573.stgit@dv.roinet.com> <1216399487.18320.16.camel@dv> <200807181849.25320.mb@bu3sch.de> <1216400219.18320.26.camel@dv> <40f31dec0807181057y65738617m8bcfa9c6c9f71671@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <40f31dec0807181057y65738617m8bcfa9c6c9f71671@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > 2008/7/18 Pavel Roskin : > > MSI is a nice thing, but we cannot enable it without changing the > > interrupt handler. If we do it, we break MSI capable hardware, > > specifically AR5006 chipset. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin [...] > Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis Cc: stable@kernel.org So that they will pick it up automatically when it hits mainline, and it also serves as an in-band documentation that it is something that needs to go/went to -stable. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh