Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Resolve MSI vs. INTX_DISABLE quirks.

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From: Daniel Barkalow <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:58:45 -0400 (EDT)

> I'm not sure all of the pci_intx() calls in msi.c should be skipped when 
> the quirk applies; I think some of them might be there so that the legacy 
> interrupt won't be delivered while MSI is turned off (since the handler 
> isn't listening for the legacy interrupts). I'd guess this would cause 
> people to have their MSI-capable device kill their non-MSI-capable device 
> when they restore their laptop (and the shared interrupt fires and gets 
> stuck at just the wrong time). No idea if this is a real concern, but I'm 
> pretty sure that not all of those calls are recent.

I don't think it's a real concern.

> There's a couple of ATA drivers that look like they might be trying to 
> work around the same bug, but it's a bit hard to tell. It might be good to 
> have them use the quirk (or set the flag) because it's cleaner.

I noticed these cases as well, and I would hope that Jeff would help
out here using the infrastructure my patches created.
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