Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:01:09 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RESEND] PCI: read revision ID by default |
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:19:18 -0700 Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:
> Currently there are 97 occurrences where drivers need the pci > revision ID. We can do this once for all devices. Even the pci > subsystem needs the revision several times for quirks. The extra > u8 member pads out nicely in the pci_dev struct. > > Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Seems worth caching yes. Care needed changing the other uses however that the revision isn't changeable on the hardware in some magic fashion.
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