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

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0500, Brian King wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >But this is limited only to a single PCI device that you have, correct?
> >To add such a huge core change for only a single, broken device, that
> >99.99% of the Linux users and developers will never see is not a nice
> >option.
>
> It is limited to every adapter the ipr device driver controls which
> means almost every scsi adapter on pSeries hardware, including the
> embedded scsi controller on most systems. So the scope of this problem
> for pSeries users is fairly large.

Not if you "fix this" by disabling access to the self-test mode :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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