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Message-ID: <m17im4c6sh.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:55:10 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Roland Dreier <roland@...italvampire.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg()

Roland Dreier <roland@...italvampire.org> writes:

>  > > While reading the MSI code trying to find a reason why MSI wouldn't
>  > > work for devices that have a 32-bit MSI address capability, I noticed
>  > > that read_msi_msg() seems to read the message data from the wrong
>  > > offset in this case.
>  > 
>  > Doh!  Sorry about that.
>
> Doesn't matter, it wasn't the bug hitting me anyway :) the IRQ never
> got affinity changed so read_msi_msg() never even got called.
>
> I'm starting to think that Intel 945GM graphics just has a busted MSI
> implementation, although there may be a bug hiding in the Linux code
> that I'm not seeing.

Well it is a bug worth fixing.  Who knows it may have something
to do with the disable_irq problems the forcedeth driver was seeing.

Right now MSI is still sufficiently new that everyone is still getting
the bugs out of their implementations.

Eric
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