On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 18:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:36:56PM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > This patch exports the pci_restore_msi_state() function.  This function
> > is needed to restore the MSI state during PCI error recovery.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Davem,
> 
> This patch is generically needed for recovery from PCI errors, 
> and not just the tg3 that Matt is working on.
> 
> Matt, there are also several msi-related bugs in the pseries
> architecture implementation, those patches will go out to 
> Paul Mackerras seperately. I was hoping today ... but things 
> came up. One little iddy-biddy problem is that the pseries
> is not actually *saving* the msi state, and so, ahem, the 
> restore isn't quite working out either. I'm still trying
> to navigate around that.
> 
Linas, the MSI state is saved automatically when the driver calls
pci_enable_msi(), so it doesn't need to be saved by pseries code.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to