[RFC PATCH] PCI-E broken on PPC (regression)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 28 09:00:12 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 08:26 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> Thanks Ben.  Any refactoring we need to handle this stuff better is
> fine with me too.  I guess on some platforms calling pci_setup_device
> may cause problems with special platform devices? 

Well, we don't call pci_setup_device() because part of the deal is to
avoid all of that config space reading that it does :-) Especially in
the case of some of the IBM EADS bridges which don't let you access
everything we may want.

Cheers,
Ben.




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