netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] be2net: Adding an option to use INTx instead of MSI-X

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Message-Id: <20101103.082822.193702985.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:28:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	michael@...erman.id.au
Cc:	matthew@....cx, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	somnath.kotur@...lex.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] be2net: Adding an option to use INTx
 instead of MSI-X

From: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:45:57 +1100

> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 17:21 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:52:08PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > That horse has really really bolted, it's gawn.
>> > 
>> > I count 26 drivers with "disable MSI/X" parameters. Some even have more
>> > than one.
>> 
>> That's 26 patches someone needs to write, then.  You can put my Acked-by
>> on all of them.
> 
> Bah, come on it's hardly the most horrendous sin committed by driver
> writers.

Yes but it's pretty high on the list because it deteriorates the
user experience.

It's a real selfish move to try and "fix" things in this way and
we've established that this isn't acceptable in the past.
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