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

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Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:28:35 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tiwai@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default


> Is this disable_intx() thingy something x86 specific ? I mean, you can't
> just call disable_irq() for LSIs since you can be sharing it. If you
> aren't sharing, free_irq() will mask for you.

Oops .. my bad, forgot about that new command register bit. When was it
added ? pci 2.3 ?

Also, it should probably be done by pci_disable_device() ... in fact, to
be safe, the driver should disable that before free_irq().

Ben.


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