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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] altix:  export sn_pcidev_info_get
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:55:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060225115512.GA24439@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq0r75x6jmn.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net>

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:23:12AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Point is that there are cases where tuning requires you to know what
> PCI bridge is below you in order to get the best performance out of a
> card. One can keep a PCI ID blacklist to handle tuning of the PCI
> bridge itself, but it can't handle things that needs to be tuned
> by setting the PCI device's own registers.
> 
> Having a generic API to export this information would be a good thing
> IMHO.

So please submit a patch to add querying/tuning pci bridges.  And please
make it _GPL exports so people don't accidentally use it in their illegal
drivers.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-25 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060214162337.GA16954@sgi.com>
2006-02-20 20:17 ` [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-20 21:39   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-21 10:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-25 11:55       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-21  2:47   ` Mark Maule
2006-02-21  8:03     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-21  8:20       ` Christian Hildner
2006-02-21 10:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-21 11:23       ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-25 11:55         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-03-01 13:34           ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-01 14:41 Luck, Tony

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