Re: Question on using MSI in PCI driver

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 15:01:30 EST


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 22, 2004 Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> >Do you think the msi subsystem should use a different name for the
> >MSI-X memory region ("MSI-X iomap Failure" seems very strange to me).
>
> What do you think of "Failure to request the MMIO address space of the
> MSI-X PBA"?
> Or what name do you suggest?

Why do you think you want "failure" in that string? It's a name that
can be used to easily identify the MMIO region, and your sentence is a)
too long and b) doesn't make sense (at least to me, maybe I'm missing
something important).

Why not just "MSI-X PBA"?

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