Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device. | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:33:55 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:27 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 11.01.11 at 15:18, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > >> >> 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? > > > > You mean 2.6.5? That's old enough to be the cut off IMHO. > > > > I'm not sure how much actual use these drivers get these days though. > > We're building ours from that code.
OK.
> Are you going to submit this for -unstable then too, or are you > expecting me to do so?
Since you can build/test it for the cases you care about I think it would be better if you did?
Ian.
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