This isn't my patch, however shouldn't these bridges already exist in
drivers/pci/quirks.c?
Kyle.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Steven Toth wrote:
>> I am under the impression it was against the spec to have a PCI-E card
>> without MSI support. Wouldn't the fallback code as well work in this
> I am under the impression it was against the spec to have a PCI-E card
> without MSI support. Wouldn't the fallback code as well work in this
> regard?
Not if the motherboard MSI implementation is flakey, like we've seen
in the past with other PCIe bridges and their interaction with root
control
The patch allows the card to support using both internal tuners
without crashing out. I've been recording significantly since the
23rd, it just works now in comparison to constant maintenance.
I am under the impression it was against the spec to have a PCI-E card
without MSI support. Wouldn't the
> I believe the root cause of the crash is due to a DMA/IRQ race condition. It
> most commonly occurs when the saa7164 driver is dealing with more than one
> saa7164 chip (the HVR-2200 and HVR-2250 for example have two - one for each
> tuner). Given MSI avoids DMA/IRQ race conditions - this would e
From: Brendan McGrath
[media] saa7164: use an MSI interrupt when available
Fixes a known crash which most commonly occurs when multiple saa7164
chips are in use.
Signed-off-by: Brendan McGrath
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drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 34
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drivers/med
