RE: [Penance PATCH] PCI: clean up the MSI code a bit

[Nguyen, Tom L]

On Friday, June 10, 2005 8:56 AM Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> If we default to MSI mode, then that is replaced by
> pci_disable_msi(dev); pci_enable_msix(dev, .., ..);
> with any error checking required, etc.
>
> If we implement an error code for each of the cases, so that
> the driver KNOWS which mode it's in after pci_enable_msix() is called
> I don't see a difference. I'm not an expert on the subject and likely
> missing things but ..

You have a good point. Please save your discussion and bring it back
when Linux Community's inputs agree that we should default to MSI mode.

Thanks,
Long
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