RE: [RFC/PATCH]reconfigure MSI registers after resume

On Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:10 PM Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:32 PM Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > So what is the alternative to Shaohua's fix?  Restore all the msi 
>> > registers on resume?
>> 
>> Yes, the PCIe port bus driver, for example, did that.
>> 

> So you're saying that each individual driver which uses MSI is
responsible
> for the restore?  
Yes.

> Is it not possible to do this in some single centralized place?
Existing pci_save_state(dev)/pci_restore_state(dev) covers only 64 bytes
of PCI header. One solution is to extend these APIs to cover up to 256
bytes. What do you think?

Thanks,
Tom
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