[ofa-general] ipath can work without MSI now?

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Apr 9 09:18:37 PDT 2008


Given the commit below, does it make sense to change the Kconfig stuff

config INFINIBAND_IPATH
        tristate "QLogic InfiniPath Driver"
        depends on (PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ) && 64BIT && NET

to remove the (PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ), since it seems your new HCA would
still work on a non-MSI-enabled kernel?

commit 9c7b278d87088350aaf9dfe0ad50afa15722dbf6
Author: Dave Olson <dave.olson at qlogic.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 8 11:50:18 2008 -0800

    IB/ipath: Fix check for no interrupts to reliably fallback to INTx
    
    Newer HCAs support MSI interrupts and also INTx interrupts.  Fix the
    code so that INTx can be reliably enabled if MSI interrupts are not
    working.
    
    Signed-off-by: Dave Olson <dave.olson at qlogic.com>
    Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>



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