From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] switch sdla to initcalls Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:26:30 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030521082630.GF22869@wotan.suse.de> References: <20030521101126.A30197@lst.de> <20030521081938.GD22869@wotan.suse.de> <20030521102512.A30373@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Christoph Hellwig Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030521102512.A30373@lst.de> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:25:12AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:11:26AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Wow, on driver that had it's dirt fingers in both Space.c and setup.c :) > > > > Are you sure this won't change probe order? The normal reason > > to keep calls in Space.c is that they're ISA or other non discoverable > > devices and require a specific ISA probe order, otherwise bad things > > happen at boot. > > > > The card appears to be non PCI. > > Yes, it's a ISA device. But it has the sdla%d namespace for it's own > and support only a single card anyway. There's not much chance of > changing any probe order here. ISA probe order has nothing to do with namespaces or single cards. It works by reading values from specific registers and completely different devices can conflict. -Andi >