Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI fixes for 2.6.9 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:47:18 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2004-10-23 at 00:45, Greg KH wrote: > > It's not that the driver is buggy. It's that the driver has far > > more information than the PCI layer could ever have. > > Ugh, I hate broken hardware. I'll revert this in my next round of pci > changes (sometime next week.)
It isnt always broken hardware either. You have no idea at the core level how the internals are configured. Thus for example if a device provides both legacy and non-legacy ports disabling it can do horrible things on pci unregister (eg soundcards with legacy joystick mappings)
As to video, well we don't always have an owner for video but unloading frame buffers doesn't want to turn the video card off either..
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