linux-kernel - Re: Disable INTx when enabling MSI

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Message-ID: <20061207223949.GA18477@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:39:49 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@...ervon.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disable INTx when enabling MSI

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:31:33PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Some device manufacturers seem to think it's the OS's responsibility to 
> disable legacy interrupt delivery when using MSI. If the driver doesn't 
> handle it (which they generally don't), and the device isn't PCI-Express, 
> a steady stream of legacy interrupts will be delivered in addition to the 
> MSI ones, eventually leading to the legacy IRQ getting disabled, which 
> kills any device that shares it.
> 
> Jeff proposed a patch in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/21/332 when Linus 
> wanted to do it in the PCI layer, but nobody seems to have told the actual 
> PCI maintainer.

Care to take Jeff's proposed patch, verify that it works and forward it
on to me?

thanks,

greg k-h
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