Re: [PATCH] pci-quirks: disable MSI on RS400-200 and RS480, take#2

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 12:04:40 EST


Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> FWIW several distros have turned off MSI by default and added
>>> a "pci=msi" option to enable it.
>> Yeah, it seem to cause a lot of problems on certain chips but I think
>> the correct path is to add PCI quirks for those. Most MSI problems I've
>> seen are on these ATI chips. Do you happen to know any other?
>
> We had devices that didn't do MSI right, e.g. forcedeth and others I
> can't recall now.

Right, driver on such devices shouldn't enable MSI. I think we have
several of those in ATA too. Oh.. crap. :-(

--
tejun
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