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Subject: Re: use generic	pci_assign_unassign_resources
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On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:42 -0600, Mark Takatz wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> We're looking at the fixes you put in place for the various PCI errors 
> and we think this is the solution we need for our system, a GE Fanuc CM6 
> PPC board (single 8641), but your patches appear to apply either to 
> 2.6.24 or 2.6.25, and we have 2.6.23.  Do you know of any similar work 
> done on the 2.6.23 release?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,

No, you would have to backport major chunks of the PCI rework I did in
between, along with fixes I did after that. At this stage I would
recommend considering an update to 2.6.27 or 2.6.28.

Cheers,
Ben.