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Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL
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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200

> We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even 
> regressions due to:
> - core kernel bugs,
> - device driver bugs and
> - hardware bugs
> 
> OTOH, MSI doesn't bring any real advantages for most users.
> 
> Let's therefore mark PCI_MSI as EXPERIMENTAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This is a good way to ensure that the code doesn't get tested
enough to ever fix the problems.