netdev - Re: [PATCH] e1000e: test MSI interrupts

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Message-Id: <20080327.145959.64040869.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:59:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Cc:	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: test MSI interrupts

From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:53:43 -0700

> >> The platforms with MSI problems should be discovered, made public,
> >> and worked around. 
> 
> This is our workaround, it is our fault, the incompatible chipset is in
> an x3850 IBM system.

Then you look for that system chipset variant in the e1000e driver and
not use MSI when it is found.

A generic test really is not warranted.
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