Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released)

[Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> * I was unable to argue against Alan's logic behind 
> 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f but I just don't like it. 
> Regardless of whether or not this truly reflects how the PCI device is 
> wired, it makes pci_request_regions() and similar resource handling code 
> behave differently.

Correctly: The resource tree is no longer corrupt for example and
pci_* resource functions actually now do the right thing. The old code
works by chance due to link order, not because anything was "broken" by
the corrections.

> * Alan proposed a libata fix patch.  I noted two key breakages in his 
> fix patch, one of which Alan agreed was a problem.

Not a "2.6.20 stopping problem" and trivial to fix further.

> So I vote for revert, for 2.6.20, but I know Alan will squawk loudly. 
> Also NOTE thoughfb0f2b40faff41f03acaa2ee6e6231fc96ca497c which fixes 
> fallout from Alan's change, too.

I'm very concerned about what that will break that depends upon it - eg
all the work done for suspend/resume PCI handling has not been tested
without the patch. Thus I'd rather fix it given the fix is trivial.

Want a fix Linus given Jeff is away ?

Alan