netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/4] e1000e: don't inadvertently re-set INTX

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	dnelson@...hat.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/4] e1000e: don't inadvertently re-set
 INTX_DISABLE

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:12:05 -0700

> From: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
> 
> Should e1000_test_msi() fail to see an msi interrupt, it attempts to
> fallback to legacy INTx interrupts. But an error in the code may prevent
> this from happening correctly.
...
> The solution is to have e1000_test_msi() re-read the PCI_COMMAND bits as
> part of its attempt to re-enable SERR.
> 
> During debugging/testing of this issue I found that not all the systems
> I ran on had the SERR bit set to begin with. And on some of the systems
> the same could be said for the INTX_DISABLE bit. Needless to say these
> latter systems didn't have a problem falling back to legacy INTx
> interrupts with the code as is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
> CC: stable@...nel.org
> Tested-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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