From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:20:35 +1100

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> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 14:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 16:25 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> > > From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
>> > > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:38:53 +0100
> 
>> > Ethtool would be nice, but only for network drivers. Is there a generic
>> > solution, quirks are obviously not keeping people happy.
>>  
>> Since this is (normally) a property of the system, pci=nomsi is the
>> generic solution.
> 
> Sort of, it's a big hammer. Did all these driver writers not know about
> pci=nomsi or did they prefer to add a parameter to their driver for some
> reason?

Every time I've actually done the work to try and track down the
true issue, it always turned out to be a PCI chipset problem rather
than a device specific issue.
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