Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:52:10 -0700
From: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
cc: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>, rth@twiddle.net,
       ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFT 2.6.9-rc1 alpha sys_alcor.c] [1/2] convert pci_find_device to pci_get_device
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--On Monday, September 13, 2004 08:17:05 PM -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:02:57PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I can run it through a compiler, but I won't be able to do meaningful
>> runtime testing on it as I only have tincup and alphapc systems. They
>> look safe at first glance.
> 
> More specifically, if these were merely alpha-specific drivers, I could
> do meaningful testing as they would attempt to be detected this way.
> But this is system-specific initialization executed conditionally on
> the system type, so as the systems I have are not the ones affected by
> these patches, if I were to attempt a runtime test I would merely
> discover that the code was not executed.

Bill,

That is fine if you could just compile it that would satisfy me.

Thanks.

Hanna

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