Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:16:20 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.5] 2-pass PCI probing, generic part |
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > Note that in most cases PCI-PCI bridges can be safely excluded from > pci_read_bases() simply because they have neither regular BARs nor > ROM BAR (even though PCI spec allows that).
This might be a good approach to take regardless - don't read pci-pci bridge BAR (or host-bridge BAR's for that matter), simply because
(a) bridges are more "interesting" than regular devices, and disabling part of them might be a stupid thing. (b) we're generally not really interested in the end result anyway
Hmm?
Linus
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