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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm2] Create new function to see if pci dev is present
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:26:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41549120.2060509@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924211912.GC7619@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> 
> Good idea, but do you see any places in the kernel that would use those
> fields, instead of always setting them to PCI_ANY_ID?
> 

Does it matter what it is currently used for?  It *is* one way you can find 
out about specific board bugs.  I'd think you'd want all of (VID, DID, RID, 
SVID, SID).


	-hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-23 22:26 [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm2] Create new function to see if pci dev is present Hanna Linder
2004-09-23 22:50 ` Greg KH
2004-09-24 19:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-24 21:19   ` Greg KH
2004-09-24 21:00     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-26 14:10       ` Greg KH
2004-09-28 17:24         ` Greg KH
2004-09-28 17:25           ` Greg KH
2004-09-28 17:26           ` Greg KH
2004-09-24 21:26     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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