From: Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I booted an igb kernel with the option pci=nomsi and instantly noticed
that interrupts no longer worked on my igb device.  I took a look at the
interrupt initialization and quickly discovered a comment stating:

"DO NOT USE EIAME or IAME in legacy mode"

It seemed a bit odd that bits to enable IAM were being set in legacy
interrupt mode, so I dropped out the following parts and interrupts
began working fine again.

[Updated code flow and a nitpick spelling error --Auke]

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c |    9 ++-------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
index bff280e..3480cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static int igb_request_irq(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
                err = igb_request_msix(adapter);
                if (!err) {
                        /* enable IAM, auto-mask,
-                        * DO NOT USE EIAME or IAME in legacy mode */
+                        * DO NOT USE EIAM or IAM in legacy mode */
                        wr32(E1000_IAM, IMS_ENABLE_MASK);
                        goto request_done;
                }
@@ -465,14 +465,9 @@ static int igb_request_irq(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
        err = request_irq(adapter->pdev->irq, &igb_intr, IRQF_SHARED,
                          netdev->name, netdev);
 
-       if (err) {
+       if (err)
                dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev, "Error %d getting interrupt\n",
                        err);
-               goto request_done;
-       }
-
-       /* enable IAM, auto-mask */
-       wr32(E1000_IAM, IMS_ENABLE_MASK);
 
 request_done:
        return err;

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