Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:22:45 -0500 | From | Terence Ripperda <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage) |
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:26:42AM -0600, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com wrote: > To be pedantically clear about this, looking at pci_dev->irq before > calling pci_enable_device() is *guaranteed* to fail, regardless of > what the BIOS does. So nvidia users will have to use "pci=routeirq" > until there's a new version of the nvidia driver.
ah, ok. thanks for clarifying.
> I'm assuming your patch makes the driver call pci_enable_device() > before using either irq or BAR information. That's the best way > to future-proof the driver.
yes, that's exactly what we've done.
Thanks, Terence
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