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

Andi Kleen
2005-01-13T21:52:22Z

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:44:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 20:23, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > X needs to be able to find the device layout in order to build its PCI
> > > mappings. Cached data is probably quite sufficient for this.
> >
> > I mean i would expect it to continue scanning other entries when it sees
> > an error on one. Is that not true?
>
> X needs to be able to find the device layout in order to build its PCI
> mappings. If there are things mysteriously vanishing now and then its
> not going to have valid mappings

I could see it as a problem when it happens on a bridge, but why
should it be a problem when some arbitary, nothing to do with X
leaf is temporarily not available?

-Andi