Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] Whitelist chipsets supporting MSI and checkHyper-transport capabilities

[Brice Goglin]

Greg KH wrote:
> No, I don't want a whitelist, as it will be hard to always keep adding
> stuff to it (unless we can somehow figure out how to put a "cut-off"
> date check in there).

My second patchset (Improve MSI detection v2) uses "PCI-E vs non-PCI-E"
as a cut-off "date". After reading all what people said in this thread,
I still think it is a good compromise (and very simple to implement) if
we blacklist PCI-E and whitelist non-PCI-E chipsets.

Brice

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