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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] MSI: read-flush MSI-X table
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> How well does this play with the MSI core changes that Michael Ellerman
> has proposed on the linux-pci mailing list?

The patch looks reasonable and it is independent of those changes.

This just modifies the helper code for using the msi capability itself as
an interrupt controller.   Other architectures that mask/unmask the interrupt
at an architecture specific interrupt controller  won't be affected.

Eric