Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 26/34] PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi

From: James Smart
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 07:30:39 EST


I'm agnostic on the change... As long as we get a message somewhere
when the failure is meaningful, I'm fine with this change. I didn't
like setting mwi by the driver anyway - it should have already been
done by the platform.

-- james s


Randy Dunlap wrote:
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
@@ -1578,10 +1578,7 @@ lpfc_pci_probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *pid)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&phba->fc_nodes);
pci_set_master(pdev);
- retval = pci_set_mwi(pdev);
- if (retval)
- dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev,
- "Warning: pci_set_mwi returned %d\n", retval);
+ pci_try_set_mwi(pdev);
Why remove the warning? Presumably people want to know if pci_set_mwi
failed.
Randy, this was your change, right?

Uh, I think that my thinking was like this:

pci_try_set_mwi() and pci_set_mwi() are both "try best effort"
functions. Neither of them guarantees that pci_set_cacheline_size()
will succeed. And in case of serious problems, pci_set_cacheline_size()
will print a (KERN_DEBUG) message.


Anyway, I don't mind restoring the former lpfc code if that is what
should be done.

---
~Randy
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