Re: Fw: [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions

Andrew Morton
2004-01-29T23:29:38Z

Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 18:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Jake Moilanen wrote:
> > >
> > > I tried this patch on my one (and only) machine that exibits this
> > > issue. Everything was detected correctly.
> >
> > Ok. This at least looks more palatable in that it's now confined a bit
> > better.
> >
> > However, looking at the logic, we really only want to do the
> > "pcibios_scan_all_fns()" once per device, not once for each function, no?
> >
> > Linus
>
> Here's a patch that addresses Linus's concerns. Andrew, if you have no
> objections, please apply.

Could you please send me a changelog description for this patch? A bit of
background for posterity, so other kernel developers can come in a year
hence and answer the question "what's all this about then?". Thanks.