* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > > My nVidia ethernet card doesn't disable its own INTx when MSI is > > enabled. This causes a steady stream of spurious interrupts that > > eventually kills my SATA IRQ if MSI is used with forcedeth, which is > > true by default. Simply disabling the INTx interrupt takes care of it. > > > > This is against -stable, and would be suitable once someone who knows the > > code verifies that it's correct. > > I _really_ think that we should do this in pci_msi_enable(). > > Screw cards that are not PCI-2.3 compliant - just make the rule be that if > you use MSI, you _have_ to allow us to set the disable-INTx bit. It's then > up to the drivers to decide if they can use MSI or not. > > (Even a number of cards that are not PCI-2.3 may simply not _implement_ > the disable-INTx bit, and in that case, they can use MSI if they disable > INTx automatically - the ).
Hmm, what do you recommend we do in the meantime, since it's a real problem and the -stable tree has no fix? Only issue I had with Daniel's patch is that it's only half-tested. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
