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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: Weirdness in pci_read_bases()
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:29:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080303212955.1c0f29c7@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204576954.21545.10.camel@pasglop>

> The main question regarding 0 in a BAR is do we know of devices that
> consider it as "disabled" and don't operate/decode 0 ? (That would be
> gross and out of spec but who knows...)

In the PC world it never gets tested so it might be wise to be cautious.

> But that can be solved, using something akin to IORESOURCE_UNSET, like
> we do on powerpc, generalizing it, and having an x86-specific quirk set
> it on anything that comes up with resource->start == 0.

And add pci_resource_unassigned() to wrap it nicely. That would
definitely be a good thing as we have confusion right now and it has
turned up in the real world.

Alan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-03 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-29  2:37 Weirdness in pci_read_bases() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-29  7:15 ` Grant Grundler
2008-03-03 19:12 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-03 20:42   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-03 20:57     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-03 21:02       ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-03 21:29     ` Alan Cox [this message]

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