linux-kernel - Re: crypto/cavium MSI-X fixups

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Date:   Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:32:23 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     George Cherian <gcherian@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        George Cherian <george.cherian@...ium.com>,
        David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crypto/cavium MSI-X fixups

Herbert,

any comment?  I'd really like to avoid introducing new pci_enable_msix
users in this merge window..

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 02:47:09PM +0530, George Cherian wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
>
> On 02/15/2017 12:48 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Hi George,
>>
>> your commit "crypto: cavium - Add Support for Octeon-tx CPT Engine"
>> add a new caller to pci_enable_msix.  This API has long been deprecated
>> so this series switches it to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors instead.
>>
>> Can you please test it and make sure it goes in before the end of the
>> merge window so that no more users of the old API hit mainline?
>
> Yes the changes works well.
> Acked-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@...ium.com>
>
> for the series.
>>
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