PCI: Improve pci_msi_supported() comments

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / drivers / pci / msi.c

diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
index f9fdc54473c4aed27a7f0e865dae74017c352563..9fc9a34ef24a28e74ec07ca725eb0c6db91f29ac 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
@@ -627,22 +627,24 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev,
  * pci_msi_supported - check whether MSI may be enabled on device
  * @dev: pointer to the pci_dev data structure of MSI device function
  *
- * MSI must be globally enabled and supported by the device and its root
- * bus. But, the root bus is not easy to find since some architectures
- * have virtual busses on top of the PCI hierarchy (for instance the
- * hypertransport bus), while the actual bus where MSI must be supported
- * is below. So we test the MSI flag on all parent busses and assume
- * that no quirk will ever set the NO_MSI flag on a non-root bus.
+ * Look at global flags, the device itself, and its parent busses
+ * to return 0 if MSI are supported for the device.
  **/
 static
 int pci_msi_supported(struct pci_dev * dev)
 {
        struct pci_bus *bus;
 
+       /* MSI must be globally enabled and supported by the device */
        if (!pci_msi_enable || !dev || dev->no_msi)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       /* check MSI flags of all parent busses */
+       /* Any bridge which does NOT route MSI transactions from it's
+        * secondary bus to it's primary bus must set NO_MSI flag on
+        * the secondary pci_bus.
+        * We expect only arch-specific PCI host bus controller driver
+        * or quirks for specific PCI bridges to be setting NO_MSI.
+        */
        for (bus = dev->bus; bus; bus = bus->parent)
                if (bus->bus_flags & PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI)
                        return -EINVAL;