From: 'Christoph Hellwig'
> Sent: 27 March 2017 15:52
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 02:06:45PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Apart from all the 'out of tree' drivers that will need
> > fixing and a conditional compile added.
> 
> That has never been a reason for stopping linux kernel changes.

I'm aware of that, but sometimes you just make life hard.

> Never mind that your out of tree drivers should probably never have used
> this function anyway, but pci_enable_msix_{exact,range} which would have
> been the better choice even before pci_alloc_irq_vectors.

Indeed, but pci_enable_msix_range() only appeared in 3.14.
We have to support a wide range of kernels.
I think we've finally managed to get most of our customers off 2.6.18.

        David

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