Re: [git pull] PCI fixes

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:07:46 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> >
> > Some discussion was under "PCI: fix cardbus and sriov regressions",
> > which includes a patchset as well. Oliver Hartkopp's problem is the one
> > that worries me most. The SR-IOV issue is really a BIOS bug and
> > unlikely to affect many people anyway (SR-IOV is really a big server
> > feature).
> 
> Ouch. That is much bigger than I was hoping for. Especially that
> second patch doesn't look like some -rc5 candidate.
> 
> And the fact that Oliver then at the end shows an impossibly aligned
> resource shows that it clearly isn't even remotely correct even AFTER
> the patches, so that doesn't make me get all warm and fuzzy either.
> 
> So I guess we should just revert again.

How about a boot param?  We've done similar things for _CRS, and it
might give Yinghai and Ram some more flexibility in improving our
dynamic resource allocation before enabling it again (if ever).

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center