public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129153015.0e77f8e7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075417841.679.139.camel@magik>

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.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-29 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040127130803.10b666f3.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401271345060.10794@home.osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <1075241556.681.19.camel@magik>
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401271428340.10794@home.osdl.org>
     [not found]       ` <1075247559.672.33.camel@magik>
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401271559230.10794@home.osdl.org>
2004-01-29 23:10           ` Fw: [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions Jake Moilanen
2004-01-29 23:30             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-30 14:10               ` Jake Moilanen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20040129153015.0e77f8e7.akpm@osdl.org \
    --to=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=greg@kroah.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org \
    --cc=moilanen@austin.ibm.com \
    --cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox