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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:52 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > David Brownell writes: > > > Maybe you should first pay attention to what I pointed out: that > > the problem reports I've seen have ONLY been on PPC systems. > > Well, there is a problem in the code which is clearly visible just by > inspection: that it is touching a pci device without having called > pci_enable_device on it. That is well known to cause problems on many > platforms, and it is not guaranteed to work on any platform. > > With a clearly visible bug like that in there, it doesn't matter what > platform(s) the problem is reported on. Yup, though I agree that considering the purpose of that code, it might make sense for it to just "peek" to check if the device was enabled rather than force-enabling it. If it was not, there is obviously no handoff to do from the BIOS. Ben. - 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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