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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, David Mosberger wrote: > > Linus> One solution in the long term may be to not even probe the > Linus> BAR's at all in generic code, and only do it in the > Linus> pci_enable_dev() stuff. That way it would literally only be > Linus> done by the driver, who can hopefully make sure that the > Linus> device is ok with it. > > Yes, I see now that the method in the PCI spec isn't really safe > either, so BAR-sizing probably shouldn't be done in generic code at > all. Note that by "long-term" I definitely mean "past 2.6", and thus if there are some specific cases where you have trouble, those will need to just have work-arounds for now. Maybe a PCI quirks entry or something like that. Linus - 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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