Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:10:50 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device. |
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>>> On 11.01.11 at 14:01, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > The old way was correct circa 2.6.37-rc5 but broken in 2.6.37 final, > there were a bunch of (reverts of) PCI resource changes in that window, > If I had to make a guess I'd say it was something in there which did it.
Was it perhaps broken somewhere between -rc5 and -final, but not in -final itself?
>> I'm mainly asking because if it really addresses some problem, >> then unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c >> in -unstable should probably get updated too. > > Assuming the pci_* interfaces exist back as far as we care about for > those drivers then I don't see why not to apply it.
I checked back to .5, where they exist; the question is - how far back do we care?
Jan
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