Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:15 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions
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Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 18:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Jake Moilanen wrote:
> > > 
> > > I tried this patch on my one (and only) machine that exibits this
> > > issue.  Everything was detected correctly.  
> > 
> > Ok. This at least looks more palatable in that it's now confined a bit 
> > better. 
> > 
> > However, looking at the logic, we really only want to do the 
> > "pcibios_scan_all_fns()" once per device, not once for each function, no?
> > 
> > 		Linus
> 
> Here's a patch that addresses Linus's concerns.  Andrew, if you have no
> objections, please apply.

Could you please send me a changelog description for this patch?  A bit of
background for posterity, so other kernel developers can come in a year
hence and answer the question "what's all this about then?".  Thanks.

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