Re: [PATCH] PCI: MSI: Restore read_msi_msg_desc(); addget_cached_msi_msg_desc()

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Nov 20 2012 - 07:36:27 EST


On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 18:20 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:56 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > commit 2ca1af9aa3285c6a5f103ed31ad09f7399fc65d7 "PCI: MSI: Remove
> > unsafe and unnecessary hardware access" changed read_msi_msg_desc() to
> > return the last MSI message written instead of reading it from the
> > device, since it may be called while the device is in a reduced
> > power state.
>
> Looks reasonable... Jesse ?
[...]

So reasonable that it was committed a couple of years ago!

Where did you dredge this from?

Ben.

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