Re: PCI: MSI interrupts masked using prohibited method

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Maybe we should just not use MSI for devices without maskbits.

That seems excessive.  I wouldn't object to forbidding CPU affinity
changes for devices:

 - Without maskbits
 - With the intx quirk

I'd want to look into it in a bit more detail .... perhaps we could
allow irq affinity if we don't have to change the address, only the
data.

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