Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:02:49 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] PCI: read revision ID by default | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:59:53 -0600
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:46:30PM -0700, Auke Kok 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. > > Good idea. I always wondered why we read the invariants so often > in the code.
BTW, if you add code like this, you also have to add the appropriate code to do this for all the platforms that probe the PCI bus using a firmware device tree like sparc64 and powerpc do. - 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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