... from Documentation/networking/s2io.txt e. intr_type Specifies interrupt type. Possible values 1(INTA), 2(MSI), 3(MSI-X) Valid range: 1-3 in fact, there are only two options, 0 (INTA) and 2 (MSI_X) ahecox@honeypot ~ $ grep -E "define (MSI_X|MSI|INTA)" drivers/net/s2io.h #define INTA 0 #define MSI_X 2 I believe Neterion XFrame I supported only INTA, XFrame II and later MSI-X. It would be nice to have this documentation (upstream too) corrected.
Indeed the documentation is wrong. Should be no problem getting it fixed upstream. I'll take care of it. Devel ACK.
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Patch sent upstream: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121448926721877&w=2 It's now in Dave Miller's git tree. I posted the patch to rhkernel-list too, with the only difference being the default value of the parameter (it's 2(MSI_X) in upstream and 0(INTA) in RHEL).
in kernel-2.6.18-99.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
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