Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: add misrouted interrupt error handling

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2008 2:54 pm James Bottomley wrote:
> > or somesuch.  That seems just as simple for driver writers as your
> > initial patch, and the function is named in accordance with what it
> > actually does, rather than what it's used for...
>
> It could, but if the bridge is the culprit (as it usually is for MSI
> problems), this print won't help identify it.
>
> Therefore, rather than give driver writers a recipe for "print this and
> this and go to the bridge and print this", I'd rather have a single PCI
> callback that prints all the (hopefully) relevant information that will
> allow either fixing or blacklisting.

So in addition to the IRQ type check we need to dump some device topology 
information... yeah that makes sense.  I wonder if the driver core should 
provide something like this.  Greg?  In the meantime we can definitely add 
the IRQ type function.

Thanks,
Jesse
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