Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:01:39 +0000 |
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On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 01:44, Andi Kleen wrote: > Then it won't work with this BIST hardware anyways - if it tries > to read config space of a device that is currently in BIST > it will just get a bus abort and no useful information.
So it should wait to preseve a sane API at least for a short while and if the user hasn't specified O_NDELAY. Its a compatibility consideration
> The only point of this whole patch exercise is to avoid the bus abort > to satisfy the more strict hardware error checking on PPC64. On PCs > it really won't make any difference.
I thought Ben wanted to do this for other PPC stuff ?
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