linux-kernel - Re: [Bulk] Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PCI] Check that MWI bit really did get set

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Message-Id: <1160922082.5732.51.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:21:22 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	matthew@....cx, akpm@...l.org, val_henson@...ux.intel.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PCI] Check that MWI bit really did get
	set

Ar Sul, 2006-10-15 am 00:08 -0700, ysgrifennodd David Brownell:
> Since it's not an error, there should be no such printk ... which
> is exactly how it's coded above.

The underlying bug is that someone marked pci_set_mwi must-check, that's
wrong for most of the drivers that use it. If you remove the must check
annotation from it then the problem and a thousand other spurious
warnings go away.
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