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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>, johnrose@austin.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:12:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127211253.GA27583@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075222501.1030.45.camel@magik>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:55:01AM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote:
> There are some arch, like PPC64, that need to be able to scan all the
> PCI functions.  The problem comes in on a logically partitioned system
> where function 0 on a PCI-PCI bridge is assigned to one partition and
> say function 2 is assiged to another partition.  On the second
> partition, it would appear that function 0 does not exist, but function
> 2 does.  If all the functions are not scanned, everything under function
> 2 would not be detected.

Heh, I think the PPC64 people need to get together and all talk about
this, as I just got a different patch, that solves much the same problem
from John Rose (it's on the linuxppc64 mailing list.)

Can you two get together and not patch the same section of code to do
the same thing in different ways?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-27 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-27 16:55 [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions Jake Moilanen
2004-01-27 21:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-27 21:33   ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 21:44     ` Greg KH
2004-01-28 20:58       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-01-27 21:57     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-27 21:57   ` John Rose
2004-01-28 15:41 ` Martin Mares

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