From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755532AbXLWA4a (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:56:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754040AbXLWA4V (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:56:21 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:51607 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754016AbXLWA4V (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:56:21 -0500 Message-ID: <476DB22F.60709@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:56:15 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Robert Hancock , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue References: <476D39C5.9080409@shaw.ca> <20071222192532.GA5282@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20071222192532.GA5282@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > But it is that device, and the driver that controls this device that > cares about the extended config space. So it's fair to push this onto > the driver if needed, instead of forcing the pci core to just blindly > guess for all devices, and getting it wrong... Nothing is being forced to guess. You make sure the broken chipsets never enable mmconfig... just like we do for plenty of other errata. Jeff