Ar Sul, 2006-10-15 am 16:18 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> No. If pci_set_mwi() detects an unexpected error then the driver should
> take some action: report it, recover from it, fail to load, etc. If the
> driver fails to do any of this then it's a buggy driver.
Wrong and there are several drivers in the kernel that are proof of
this.
> You, the driver author _do not know_ what pci_set_mwi() does at present, on
> all platforms, nor do you know what it does in the future. For you the
You don't care. It isn't an error for set_mwi to fail. In fact the only
reason set_mwi even needs to bother with a return code is that some
chips want you to set other config private to the device if it is
available and active.
Alan
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