linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

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Date:	Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:10:42 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tiwai@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default



On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think "nice" is enough of an advantage to overcome "doesn't work 
> > on God knows how many systems".
> 
> From what I see, that's not the advantage of MSI.  The following
> doesn't apply so well to sound, but it does apply significantly
> to the networking.

You're totally missing the issue.

Read that sentence of mine again.

Yours was still an example of "nice". And it had absolutely nothing to do 
with the _PROBLEM_.

			Linus
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