Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:10:44 -0700

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
> 
>>Some more of my paranoid questions :)
>>
>>So, if a driver tries to enable MSI and that is unsuccessful (I'll try
>>to avoid using the possibly loaded term "fails") shouldn't that show-up
>>_somewhere_?
> 
> 
> It already does -- in /proc/interrupts.

But that is rather incidental isn't it?  Would some sort of system health 
monitor be likely to be checking that for interrupt flavors?  And just looking 
at /proc/interrupts, while it tells you what sort of interrupt is being used, it 
doesn't (IIRC) say anything about what sort of interrupt the driver _tried_ to use.

rick jones