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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com
Cc: "Gérard Roudier" <groudier@club-internet.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Changes for PCI
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:18:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B3B9F11.D83BDFDF@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010628223210.Q1578-100000@> <3B3B9D83.F95D4496@vnet.ibm.com>

Tom Gall wrote:
> Gérard Roudier wrote:
> > The driver checks against PCI bus+dev+func in 2 situations:
> >
> > 1) To apply the boot order that user can set up in the controller NVRAMs.
> > 2) To detect buggy double reporting of the same device by the kernel PCI
> >    code (this made lot of troubles at some time).
> 
> Thanks much for the clarification. Do you still battle buggy double reporting?
> Has this been fixed? Is it a bug on some specific architecture?

I've seen it occur in 2.2.x in buggy drivers, but in 2.4 the driver
should -not- have to check for this.  The PCI core takes care of it.

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Andre the Giant has a posse.
Building 1024    |
MandrakeSoft     |

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-28 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-27 22:06 RFC: Changes for PCI Tom Gall
2001-06-27 22:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-27 22:57   ` Tom Gall
2001-06-27 23:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-27 18:24       ` Tom Gall
2001-06-28 20:57       ` Gérard Roudier
2001-06-28 21:11         ` Tom Gall
2001-06-28 21:18           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-06-28 21:12         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-28  1:02     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-27 19:07       ` Tom Gall
2001-06-29  5:22         ` Richard Henderson
2001-06-29  3:14           ` Tom Gall
2001-06-27 23:17   ` anton
2001-06-28  1:04     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-27 18:49       ` Tom Gall
2001-06-28  4:06         ` David S. Miller
2001-06-27 20:01           ` Tom Gall
     [not found]   ` <mailman.993682861.9307.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-06-27 23:41     ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-06-28  0:48       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28  1:00   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-27 23:12 ` anton
2001-06-28  0:59 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 16:48   ` Todd Inglett
2001-06-28 17:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-28 17:20       ` Todd Inglett
2001-06-28 17:01     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 21:54       ` Gérard Roudier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-28 23:08 Khachaturov, Vassilii
2001-06-28 23:27 ` Jeff Garzik

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