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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:58:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52hdke29sh.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4211013E.6@pobox.com> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:51:26 -0500")

    Jeff> * pci_request_regions() should be axiomatic.  By that I mean,
    Jeff> pci_enable_device() should
    Jeff> 	(a) handle pci_request_regions() completely
    Jeff> 	(b) fail if regions are not available

There's one pitfall here: for a device using MSI-X, the MSI-X table is
going to be somewhere in one of the device's BARs.  When the device
driver does pci_enable_msix(), drivers/pci/msi.c will do
request_region() on this table.  If the device driver has already done
pci_request_regions(), then this will fail and the driver won't be
able to use MSI-X.  The current solution is for the driver to avoid
requesting the whole BAR where the MSI-X table is.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-14 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14  1:42 avoiding pci_disable_device() Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:06 ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 18:08   ` Alan Cox
2005-02-14 19:24   ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:34     ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 19:50       ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:54         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:51   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:58     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-02-14 20:00       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 21:42         ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 22:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 22:46             ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-17 23:07               ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 20:02     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-15  2:05       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-16 11:27         ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-16 13:44           ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-14 10:43 Michal Rokos
2005-02-14 11:08 ` Christoph Hellwig

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