Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device. | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:18:03 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:10 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 11.01.11 at 14:01, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > > The old way was correct circa 2.6.37-rc5 but broken in 2.6.37 final, > > there were a bunch of (reverts of) PCI resource changes in that window, > > If I had to make a guess I'd say it was something in there which did it. > > Was it perhaps broken somewhere between -rc5 and -final, but > not in -final itself?
No I'm working with 2.6.37 final and it is broken there.
> >> I'm mainly asking because if it really addresses some problem, > >> then unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c > >> in -unstable should probably get updated too. > > > > Assuming the pci_* interfaces exist back as far as we care about for > > those drivers then I don't see why not to apply it. > > I checked back to .5, where they exist; the question is - how far > back do we care?
You mean 2.6.5? That's old enough to be the cut off IMHO.
I'm not sure how much actual use these drivers get these days though.
Ian.
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