Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc1] pci: only call pci_restore_bars at boot

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:26:50AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:08:12 -0400
> 
> > This seems like it will break a lot of stuff that -does- need the BARs 
> > restored when resuming from D3.
> 
> I wasn't going to say anything about this ia64 workaround,
> but yes I have to agree with Jeff, this change starts to
> lose the whole point of the original change.

Those cases are handled by the driver calling pci_restore_state after
calling pci_set_power_state(..., PCI_D0).

The only time need_restore is actually needed is when the device is
first accessed after boot (signified by PCI_UNKNOWN).  When PCI drivers
load, they typically call pci_enable_device before doing anything else.
pci_enable_device calls pci_set_power_state(..., PCI_D0), which exposes
the device to potentially become uninitialized if it had previously
been left in PCI_D3hot.  Any other time pci_set_power_state(..., PCI_D0)
is called, drivers know to call (and can call) pci_restore_state
afterwards.

If not calling pci_restore_bars from pci_set_power_state during normal
transitions from PCI_D3hot was a problem, it would have been a problem
long before the pci_restore_bars patch came along in 2.6.14-rc1. :-)

John
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John W. Linville
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