Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:49:02 +0000 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: resending patch: Documentation/pci.txt |
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Bret Indrelee wrote: > > I sent this patch out on Nov 3, 1999. Looking at the lastest documentation > available on kernelnotes.org, it didn't get applied. > > I'm resending it, hopefully it will not get discarded again. > > I put this together after a lot of discussion on this list about what the > proper way of handling PCI initialization and access was. Since people told > me to fix the documentation rather than just complaining, that is exactly > what I'm attempting to do. > > If there is something incorrect in what I wrote, please let me know. I am > not sure that the lines about > check_region()/request_region()/release_region() are correct, there don't > seem to be any PCI drivers doing this. I included it because Jeff Garzik and > Martin Mares both said it was needed.
I don't know what the general intent of pci.txt is, only Martin can answer that. Your addition IMHO seems like it belongs in a new 'drivers.txt' not specifically pci.txt, because a lot of the text applies to all architectures.
Martin already added a pointer to IO-mapping.txt in recent kernels.
And, small error in your text, there is no base_address[] in 2.3.x kernels.
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