From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266214AbUHXRk3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:40:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266677AbUHXRk3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:40:29 -0400 Received: from umhlanga.stratnet.net ([12.162.17.40]:24047 "EHLO umhlanga.STRATNET.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266214AbUHXRk2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:40:28 -0400 To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Terence Ripperda , Alan Cox , Michael Geithe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mastergoon@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage) X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20040819092654.27bb9adf.akpm@osdl.org> <200408230930.18659.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20040823190131.GC1303@hygelac> <200408240926.42665.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:36:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200408240926.42665.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (Bjorn Helgaas's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:26:42 -0600") Message-ID: <52vff8phf5.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Aug 2004 17:36:14.0873 (UTC) FILETIME=[DACD3090:01C48A00] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bjorn> To be pedantically clear about this, looking at Bjorn> pci_dev->irq before calling pci_enable_device() is Bjorn> *guaranteed* to fail, regardless of what the BIOS does. So Bjorn> nvidia users will have to use "pci=routeirq" until there's Bjorn> a new version of the nvidia driver. Terence, correct me if I'm wrong, but the change to add pci_enable_device() goes in the part of the nvidia driver that has source available. So users can apply this patch themselves even without another Nvidia release. - Roland