How to block pci config-reads during device self-test?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jul 9 02:37:59 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:36, Brian King wrote:

> I don't like the idea of "learning to live with this". People do run
> into this problem and telling them it can't be fixed is not an
> acceptable answer.

Then we should do the workaround in the low level pci access functions,
possibly by having the driver call an arch function to "notify" that
the given device is in a bad state for a while...

Ben.

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