Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] PCI: remove pci_enable_msix

From: 'Christoph Hellwig' <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:51:35 +0200

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 02:06:45PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Apart from all the 'out of tree' drivers that will need
> fixing and a conditional compile added.

That has never been a reason for stopping linux kernel changes.

Never mind that your out of tree drivers should probably never have used
this function anyway, but pci_enable_msix_{exact,range} which would have
been the better choice even before pci_alloc_irq_vectors.