myri10ge: make msi configurable at runtime through sysfs
authorBrice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:51:22 +0000 (11:51 +0100)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:28:20 +0000 (16:28 -0500)
Now that IRQ are requested is called on open() and freed on close(),
we can safely switch from/to MSI without unloading the module.

We are guaranteed to correctly free IRQ even if the sysfs file got
written in the meantime since the MSI initialization is stored in
mgp->msi_enabled.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c

index 53325ba0a6ae4af4b05d56fc530296c6468afbeb..1ce3c9e5c890e7ba7010b06f38a50c21d875471d 100644 (file)
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ module_param(myri10ge_small_bytes, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(myri10ge_small_bytes, "Threshold of small packets\n");
 
 static int myri10ge_msi = 1;   /* enable msi by default */
-module_param(myri10ge_msi, int, S_IRUGO);
+module_param(myri10ge_msi, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(myri10ge_msi, "Enable Message Signalled Interrupts\n");
 
 static int myri10ge_intr_coal_delay = 25;