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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 13:50:59 -0800 From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...hat.com> Cc: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, "dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 1/4] ioat: Use pci_enable_msix_exact() instead of pci_enable_msix() On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...hat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:09:39PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: >> Can you point me to the background for this change. From the >> changelog I have no idea what this patch does or why I need to apply >> it. > > Function pci_enable_msix() returns a tri-state value while > pci_enable_msi_exact() is a canonical zero/-errno variant. > The former is being phased out in favor of the latter. > In case of 'ioat' there (should be) no difference. Got it. If you resend with that in the changelog. Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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