Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG - a couple of corrections to the preamble

Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG - a couple of corrections to the preamble

[Tony Camuso]

Some corrections to the preamble.

> The large amount of text is due to the nature of the
> problem and the discussion it engendered on the lkml.

Should say:

The large amount of text in the explanation below is due to
the nature of the problem and the discussion engendered on
lkml by my first submission.


> This patch-set detects the problem by comparing an MMCONFIG
> read to a Legacy PCI config read of the vendor/device dword
> of every device discovered during the PCI probing sequence.

Actually, the patch doesn't do a pci config read of EVERY device
discovered on every bus. Only on buses above a number defined
by PCI_MMCFG_MAX_CHECK_BUS and whose parent bus's pci_bus.ops
field points to pci_root_ops, which are mmconfig access routines
in systems in which mmconfig is the default mechanism.

In such cases where the parent bus pci_bus.ops field points
to pci_legacy_ops, the current bus does not need to be probed,
since its own pci_bus.ops field will inherit the pointer to
pci_legacy_ops from its parent.