Re: [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables.

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 22:19 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Currently we blacklist known bad msi configurations which means we
> keep getting MSI enabled on chipsets that either do not support MSI,
> or MSI is implemented improperly.  Since the normal IRQ routing
> mechanism seems to works even when MSI does not, this is a bad default
> and causes non-functioning systems for no good reason.
> 
> So this patch inverts the sense of the MSI bus flag to only enable
> MSI on known good systems.  I am seeding that list with the set of
> chipsets with an enabled hypertransport MSI mapping capability.  Which
> is as close as I can come to an generic MSI enable.  So for actually
> using MSI this patch is a regression, but for just having MSI enabled
> in the kernel by default things should just work with this patch
> applied.

I guess this is a good idea for random x86 machines. On powerpc I think
we'll just turn it on for every bus, and let the existing per-platform
logic decide.

cheers

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