Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-11T19:49:40Z

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:45:24AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:40:02AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Personally I absolutely don't agree with that.
> > Ivan's patch is another attempt to make MMCONFIG work somewhat better,
> > but does not provide the explicit opt-in that I think is required at
> > this point; people have tried to get MMCONFIG stable for a really long time,
> > and failed still upto today. At least my patience is up and this needs
> > to be opt-in.

So your argument is that MMCONFIG sucks, therefore Linux has to have a
horrible interface to extended PCI config space?

> I think I agree with Arjan here, Ivan's patch should also work on top of
> this one, and will help out some machines.
>
> But as he hasn't asked for it to be included in the kernel tree, that's
> a moot point right now :)

He didn't? I certainly ask for it to be included.

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