Re: 2.6.13.1 locks machine after some time, 2.6.12.5 work fine

[Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:22:13PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:55:31 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > >         /* Reset expansion ROM address decode enable */
> > >         pci_read_config_word(ha->pdev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS, &w);
> > >         w &= ~PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE;
> > >         pci_write_config_word(ha->pdev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS, w);
>  ...
> > So the above probably works fine, especially since it's just disabling the 
> > ROM (ie we don't end up caring at all about the upper bits even if they 
> > did get the wrong value). But it's definitely bad practice, and there are 
> > probably cards (for which that driver is irrelevant, of course ;) where 
> > doing something like the above might not work at all.
> 
> I think for consistency the above driver case should still be fixed,
> however.  This way when people try to audit the tree for
> PCI_ROM_ADDRESS config space accesses, they won't come across this
> same instance again and again.

Agreed. I'll follow up with patches for the relevant maintainers.

--Adam