Re: [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] snd-hda-intel: default MSI to off

[Prakash Punnoor]

Am Dienstag 17 Oktober 2006 23:40 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:13:01 +0200
>
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:08:57PM +0200, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag 05 Oktober 2006 19:30 schrieb Fatih A????c??:
> > > > 2006/10/5, Prakash Punnoor <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > subjects say it all. Without irqpoll my nic doesn't work anymore. I
> > > > > added Ingo
> > > > > to cc, as my IRQs look different, so it may be a prob of APIC
> > > > > routing or the
> > > > > like.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you try booting with pci=nomsi ? I have a similar problem with
> > > > > my
> > >
> > > I used snd-hda-intel.disable_msi=1 and this actually helped! Now the
> > > nforce nic works w/o problems. So it was the audio driver causing havoc
> > > on the nic. ...
> >
> > Unless someone finds and fixes what causes such problems, I'd therefore
> > suggest the patch below to let MSI support to be turned off by default.

Could it perhaps be that the forcedeth driver isn't MSI aware and this causes 
breakage?

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