On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 02:21:17PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Whee.... that's a lot more than I expected.  I was just scanning
> multiple msi users.  Maybe we can stage the work in more manageable
> steps so that you don't have to go through massive conversion only to
> do it all over again afterwards and likewise people don't get
> bombarded on each iteration?  Maybe we can first update pci / msi code
> proper, msi and then msix?

Multipe MSIs is just a handful of drivers, really. MSI-X impact still
will be huge. But if we opt a different name for the new pci_enable_msix()
then we could first update pci/msi, then drivers (in few stages possibly)
and finally remove the old implementation.

> tejun

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Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
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