Re: [GIT PATCH] Another PCI fix for 2.6.12-rc6

[David S. Miller]

From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:20:33 -0700

> 	"Broadcom already submitted the bnx2 driver for the 5706 gigabit
> 	driver which enables MSI on all systems that support PCI-X. That
> 	patch has already gone into 2.6.12-rc6. So if the MSI disable
> 	patch does not get into 2.6.12, anyone who uses the 5706 on the
> 	Serverworks chipset platform, will have interrupt failures."

The bnx2 driver can get the MSI test added to it just like the tg3
driver does.  I don't see why the same code wasn't propagated.  Either
both drivers need that MSI test code, or both do not.

That doesn't make any sense, one testing for correct MSI functionality
while the other does not.

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