Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:01:25 +0100,
Olivier Nicolas wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:15:45 -0500,
> > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> ACK the pci_intx() calls, NAK the obviously overweight spinlock changes. 
> >>   The spinlock changes are completely unnecessary.  Just look at any 
> >> other (non-ALSA) PCI driver.  Existing "spin_lock()" is fine for both 
> >> PCI shared irq handlers and MSI irq handlers.
> >>
> >> It sounds like you are trying to work around a reentrancy problem that 
> >> does not exist.
> >>
> >> Only weird drivers like ps2kbd/mouse or IDE need spin_lock_irqsave(), 
> >> where separate interrupt sources call the same function.
> > 
> > OK, I revised it, also referring to a similar patch by Yinghai.
> > I think we can simplify the change like below.
> > Olivier, could you test this patch, too?
> 
> Applied to 2.6.19-rc6, the module tries MSI but this time no IRQ get 
> disabled. The result is equivalent to 2.6.19-rc6

Does it mean that the driver works as expected with this patch?

> 
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:543: hda_intel: No response from codec, 
> disabling MSI...
> hda_codec: Unknown model for AD1988, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
> 
> 
> Full details:
> http://olivn.trollprod.com/19-rc6/19-rc6-takashi-routeirq1.dmesg
> http://olivn.trollprod.com/19-rc6/19-rc6-takashi-routeirq1.irq

These look OK to me.


thanks,

Takashi