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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.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 20:24:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h7jlbc5ci.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050214190619.GA9241@kroah.com>

At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:06:19 -0800,
Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > As a result, I have committed the attached patch to libata-2.6.  In many 
> > cases, it is a "semantic fix", addressing the case
> > 
> > 	* pci_request_regions() indicates hardware is in use
> > 	* we rudely disable the in-use hardware
> > 
> > that would not occur in practice.
> > 
> > But better safe than sorry.  Code cuts cut-n-pasted all over the place.
> > 
> > I'm hoping one or two things will happen now:
> > * janitors fix up the other PCI drivers along these lines
> > * improve the PCI API so that pci_request_regions() is axiomatic
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for how to do this?

How about to add an exclusiveness check in pci_enable_device()?
Most drivers suppose that the given pci resources are exclusively
available.


Takashi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-14 19:24 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 [this message]
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
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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