Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)

Alan Cox
2005-01-15T02:10:37Z

On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 01:44, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Then it won't work with this BIST hardware anyways - if it tries
> to read config space of a device that is currently in BIST
> it will just get a bus abort and no useful information.

So it should wait to preseve a sane API at least for a short while and
if the user hasn't specified O_NDELAY. Its a compatibility consideration

> The only point of this whole patch exercise is to avoid the bus abort
> to satisfy the more strict hardware error checking on PPC64. On PCs
> it really won't make any difference.

I thought Ben wanted to do this for other PPC stuff ?