[PATCH] bus/pci: fix automatic interrupt type selection
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Jun 27 22:08:54 CEST 2025
27/06/2025 21:33, Pekka Riikonen:
> On 2025-06-27 19:00, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 20/06/2025 13:47, priikone at iki.fi:
> >> Check if kernel returns 0 interrupt vectors and try another interrupt
> >> type in that case. Failing to check the vector count can select an
> >> interrupt type that's unusable.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pekka Riikonen <priikone at iki.fi>
> >
> > Please could you be explicit about the use case you are trying to fix?
>
> This particular case was with e1000em that only supported INTx, but the
> function selected MSI-X simply because it's the first one attempted,
> even though it got 0 vectors. Enabling interrupts then failed. If the
> function had checked the vector count it would have correctly selected
> INTx. Now, my setup might have been quite old but it doesn't change
> that it selected wrong interrupt type.
OK thank you, it helps for the review, and could be added to the commit log.
Adding PCI bus maintainers for review.
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