Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 1/4] ioat: Use pci_enable_msix_exact() instead of pci_enable_msix()

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 16:09:48 EST


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As result of deprecation of MSI-X/MSI enablement functions
> pci_enable_msix() and pci_enable_msi_block() all drivers
> using these two interfaces need to be updated to use the
> new pci_enable_msi_range() or pci_enable_msi_exact()
> and pci_enable_msix_range() or pci_enable_msix_exact()
> interfaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dmaengine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---

Can you point me to the background for this change. From the
changelog I have no idea what this patch does or why I need to apply
it.
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