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Message-ID: <20070906202728.GB10916@gospo.rdu.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:27:29 -0400
From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: mchan@...adcom.com, andy@...yhouse.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:50:19PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:05:30 -0700
>
> > The HT1000 bridge may very well have an MSI issue. I'm checking with
> > ServerWorks and I will do some testing to confirm. If confirmed, we can
> > disable MSI behind the HT1000 bridge instead of globally. The 5714
> > issue is not caused by the HT1000 as it is not behind the HT1000.
>
> What I'm going to do at this point is just merge the tg3
> fix into the current 2.6.23 tree right now.
>
> Meanwhile I'll have the HT1000 MSI quirk revert ready and,
> unless we find a reason not to, I'll ask Greg KH to merge
> that patch into 2.6.24
>
> It seems the safest and most reasonable way to handle this
> right now.
Sounds great. Hopefully Michael will hear something back from his folks
before too long and we can use whatever they suggest instead of just the
revert.
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