linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic msi bug fixes..

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Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:52:40 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic msi bug fixes..

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:24:17PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> While looking at some other irq issues I realized that the current msi code
> has a serious issue in that we don't have support for masking msi interrupts
> on all variations of the msi capabilities.
> 
> Closing that hole is simple, but it requires the msi enable/disable
> logic to be sorted out. Which is a little more complicated...
> 
> These are moderately simples fixes so the should be safe for 2.6.21.

Unless these fix a reported bug, I'd like to hold on to these and wait
for 2.6.22 so they get some testing in a few -mm releases.

thanks,

greg k-h
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