netdev - Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup

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Message-ID: <464B56F5.1020008@garzik.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 15:09:41 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
CC:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error
 message,	cleanup

Rick Jones wrote:
> So, if a driver tries to enable MSI and that is unsuccessful (I'll try 
> to avoid using the possibly loaded term "fails") shouldn't that show-up 
> _somewhere_? Just how "normal" is an attempt to enable MSI not succeding 
> going to remain over time and aren't there times when it does indeed 
> mean that someone should be looking into it?


If there is an MSI problem, it is the job of the PCI core to complain.

	Jeff


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