Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:59:37 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [0/4] NUMA-Q: remove PCI bus number mangling |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> That bus number mangling scheme is an instance of an approach vetoed >> over a year ago by Dave Miller and others, and does not work for bridges >> because arch code does not get the opportunity to mangle the bus number >> during bridge discovery.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:53:49PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Right, I'm not against the sysdata thing, seems like a much better way > to do it in general (what I did was a quick hack). Was just confused > by the global bus number assertion, but if we use the sysdata stuff, > it's all a non-issue ;-)
Non-issue for merging...
The pain isn't over yet. =(
Core PCI code is assuming unique bus numbers in several places.
Fixing now, Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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