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

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Date:	Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:42:06 -0800
From:	"Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu@....com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>
cc:	"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@...e.de>,
	"Olivier Nicolas" <olivn@...llprod.org>,
	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

-----Original Message-----
From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@...l.org] 

>Eventually, MSI will hopefully be the more robust of the two methods. 
>Maybe it will take a year. And maybe we'll end up not using MSI on a
lot 
>of the _current_ crop of motherboards. We don't want to carry the "fall

>back from MSI to INTx" code around. We just want a flag saying "use
MSI" 
>or "use INTx".

Good, that will be simple and clear.

YH


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