Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:55:12 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get |
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:23:12AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Point is that there are cases where tuning requires you to know what > PCI bridge is below you in order to get the best performance out of a > card. One can keep a PCI ID blacklist to handle tuning of the PCI > bridge itself, but it can't handle things that needs to be tuned > by setting the PCI device's own registers. > > Having a generic API to export this information would be a good thing > IMHO.
So please submit a patch to add querying/tuning pci bridges. And please make it _GPL exports so people don't accidentally use it in their illegal drivers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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