Re: [TG3]: Add msi test

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:01 -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> tree 1e1c24ad874db00f827fc6d9087402db6becefc9
> parent 88b06bc26b87cf0490b0e3faea7fefc7549dd75d
> author Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:13:59 -0700
> committer David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:13:59 -0700
> 
> [TG3]: Add msi test
> 
> Add MSI test for chips that support MSI. If MSI test fails, it will
> switch back to INTx mode and will print a message asking the user to
> report the failure.

While the technicals of this change are ok, this still concerns me. Are
all MSI drivers now supposed to check if the bios/mobo actually support
MSI like this? That sounds sort of wrong! 

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