On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 20:28 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:24:04 -0500
>
> > I can't answer for the spec, but at least two independent device vendors
> > recommended to write an MSI driver that way (disable intx, enable msi).
>
> Ok.
>
> > Completely independent of MSI though, a PCI 2.2 compliant driver should
> > be nice and disable intx on exit, just to avoid any potential interrupt
> > hassles after driver unload. And of course be aware that it might need
> > to enable intx upon entry.
>
> This also sounds like it should occur in the generic PCI layer when a
> PCI driver is unregistered.
Is this disable_intx() thingy something x86 specific ? I mean, you can't
just call disable_irq() for LSIs since you can be sharing it. If you
aren't sharing, free_irq() will mask for you.
Ben.
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