Re: bare pci configuration access functions ?

Scott Murray (scottm@somanetworks.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:23:23 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:50:06PM -0500, Scott Murray wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Anyway, this is a nice diversion from the real problem here, for 2.4,
> > > should I just backport the pci_ops changes which will allow pci
> > > hotplugging to work again on ia64, or do we want to do something else?
> >
> > It would be nice from a hotplug driver maintenance point of view if the
> > 2.4 and 2.5 interfaces were the same IMO.
>
> Yes it would be, but it's not a necessary thing :)

Yeah, yeah, I can deal. ;)

> > How about submitting the change in 2.4.21-pre?
>
> It is a _very_ big change. It hits every architecture. It was the
> right thing to do in 2.5, I'm just questioning if it's the right thing
> to do in 2.4 because of the magnitude of it.
>
> So, if people say it's ok, I'll do it. But I would like to hear from
> the PPC64 group first, as I know I caused them a lot of grief and rework
> because of it.

I hadn't realized the magnitude of the changes from the previous
discussion here on the list, my apologies.

Scott

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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com

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