Re: [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: Get rid of superfluous call topci_disable_msi()

From: Alexander Gordeev
Date: Tue Feb 04 2014 - 14:08:16 EST


On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:32:12PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 2 --
> > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> > index 29fd197..6525e1f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> > @@ -2414,8 +2414,6 @@ static int ath10k_pci_init_irq(struct ath10k *ar)
> > ret = pci_enable_msi_block(ar_pci->pdev, ar_pci->num_msi_intrs);
> > if (ret == 0)
> > return 0;
> > - if (ret > 0)
> > - pci_disable_msi(ar_pci->pdev);
>
> I don't understand how this is superfluous. When I read the
> documentation for pci_enable_msi_block() it states that if it can't
> allocate all requests, it will return the number requests it could
> allocate. And in that case we want to fall back other modes.
>
> Am I missing something?

Yep. The documentation states 'could have been allocated', not 'could
allocate'. IOW, MSIs are *not* enabled if a positive value returned.
The code I changed tries to disable MSIs in such case, although it is
not necessary, nor required. Just superfluous.

HTH.

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Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx
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