Re: RFC: Changes for PCI
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:18:09 -0400
Tom Gall wrote:
> Gérard Roudier wrote:
> > The driver checks against PCI bus+dev+func in 2 situations:
> >
> > 1) To apply the boot order that user can set up in the controller NVRAMs.
> > 2) To detect buggy double reporting of the same device by the kernel PCI
> > code (this made lot of troubles at some time).
>
> Thanks much for the clarification. Do you still battle buggy double reporting?
> Has this been fixed? Is it a bug on some specific architecture?
I've seen it occur in 2.2.x in buggy drivers, but in 2.4 the driver
should -not- have to check for this. The PCI core takes care of it.
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