From f6be6fbe262d065e85be159ea27460852f13ec90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:37:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X. However, MSI-X works with all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both. Schedule MSI support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and who can't use MSI time to speak up. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 ++++++++++ drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index d05e6243b4d..d245c639c22 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -310,3 +310,13 @@ Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org --------------------------- + +What: mthca driver's MSI support +When: January 2008 +Files: drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/*.[ch] +Why: All mthca hardware also supports MSI-X, which provides + strictly more functionality than MSI. So there is no point in + having both MSI-X and MSI support in the driver. +Who: Roland Dreier + +--------------------------- diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c index aa563e61de6..7ea6713afea 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(msi_x, "attempt to use MSI-X if nonzero"); static int msi = 0; module_param(msi, int, 0444); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(msi, "attempt to use MSI if nonzero"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(msi, "attempt to use MSI if nonzero (deprecated, use MSI-X instead)"); #else /* CONFIG_PCI_MSI */ @@ -1117,9 +1117,21 @@ static int __mthca_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, int hca_type) if (msi_x && !mthca_enable_msi_x(mdev)) mdev->mthca_flags |= MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X; - if (msi && !(mdev->mthca_flags & MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) && - !pci_enable_msi(pdev)) - mdev->mthca_flags |= MTHCA_FLAG_MSI; + else if (msi) { + static int warned; + + if (!warned) { + printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "WARNING: MSI support will be " + "removed from the ib_mthca driver in January 2008.\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING " If you are using MSI and cannot " + "switch to MSI-X, please tell " + ".\n"); + ++warned; + } + + if (!pci_enable_msi(pdev)) + mdev->mthca_flags |= MTHCA_FLAG_MSI; + } if (mthca_cmd_init(mdev)) { mthca_err(mdev, "Failed to init command interface, aborting.\n"); -- 2.41.1