Re: [Penance PATCH] PCI: clean up the MSI code a bit

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:35:59PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Ok, I'm very sorry for wasting people's time on this.  In the end, I
> agree that the MSI code should stay as is.  It's just to complex and
> confusing to enable it always for all devices at this time.  I'll put
> the pci_enable/pci_disable idea on my TODO list to try to help out with
> some of the logic that every-other pci driver seems to have to duplicate
> all the time.  That seems like the best way forward.


I disagree it should stay as it is. Basically you are trading
a bit less complexity in Infiniband now for a lot of code everywhere.

Does not seem like a good tradeoff.

-Andi
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