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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:59:32PM -0700, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> 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?

Will that solve this issue?  I need to dig up my PCI spec to see if that
will still work properly on older pci devices...

thanks,

greg k-h
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