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

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Message-ID: <adau00ztic4.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:24:59 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tiwai@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

 > Most interrupt-driven devices have an interrupt mask register of some
 > sort.  The nice thing about PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE is that it is
 > standardized.

You all got on me about quoting the spec about not generating INTx
interrupts after MSI is enabled.  What makes you think that setting
some bit in the command register, which wasn't even standardized until
PCI 2.3 and which most hardware designers probably forgot about, is
going to work on broken devices?

 - R.
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