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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:08:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108404478.23141.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050214190619.GA9241@kroah.com>

> > I'm hoping one or two things will happen now:
> > * janitors fix up the other PCI drivers along these lines
> > * improve the PCI API so that pci_request_regions() is axiomatic
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for how to do this?

One would be to keep an "enabler" count.

If the device is enabled at boot then set it to one (video, legacy IDE
etc) and it never gets back to zero. Otherwise set it to zero and it
goes up and down with the last [ab]user clearing it to zero and turning
it off. That also deals with the "who disables" question for power
mismanagement where the same problem occurs

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-14 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14  1:42 avoiding pci_disable_device() Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:06 ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 18:08   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-02-14 19:24   ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:34     ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 19:50       ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:54         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:51   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:58     ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 20:00       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 21:42         ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 22:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 22:46             ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-17 23:07               ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 20:02     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-15  2:05       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-16 11:27         ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-16 13:44           ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-14 10:43 Michal Rokos
2005-02-14 11:08 ` Christoph Hellwig

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