Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:49:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Gérard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL) |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > All I wanted was a function that allows the driver to decide that which > > needs to be enabled. > > > > pci_enable_device(struct pci_dev *dev, byte enable_mask) > > > > This would allow drivers to enable that which it needs and not weird out > > the hardware that does not like all of this extra fluff. > > Sounds not too daft > > static inline int pci_enable_device(struct pci_device *dev) > { > return pci_enable_device_features(USE_IO|USE_MM); > }
Should be worded as "Respond to IO", "Respond to Memory" transactions, given the explicit PCI context.
And what about other features ? I mean: - Bus Master - Memory Write and Invalidate - Parity Error response Etc ... Are they considered as misfeatures ? ;-)
> and then just go and turn the existing enable_device into enable_device_Features ?
Gérard.
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