Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/2] RTAS MSI

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:56:39 +0200

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 13:15 -0500, Jake Moilanen wrote:
> Here is a rebased RTAS MSI which uses the IRQ layer rewrite.  Please try
> getting it into 2.6.18.  
> 
> I mistakenly forgot to export the MSI symbols.  So modules weren't too
> happy...
> 
> The RTAS patch skips the intel-centric MSI layer and uses
> pci_enable/disable_msi() calls directly.  It does not correctly handle
> multi-vector MSI either.  

Multi-vector MSIs aren't handled by the linux API anyway it seems (the
doc says pci_enable_msi() only ever enables one MSI) so that's fine if
you don't handle them :) The word on the street is that multivector MSIs
aren't useful, MSI-X are.

Ben.