Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:22:21 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: small PCI probe patch for odd 64 bit BARs
Message-ID: <20041111172221.GB18538@kroah.com>
References: <20041111044809.GE19615@google.com>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:48:09PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> The current PCI probe code breaks for 64 bit BARs that do not decode a
> full 64 bits.  Example:
> 
> We have a device that uses a 64 bit BAR.  When you write all Fs to the
> BARs, you get:
> 
> 	000000ff ffff0000
> 
> It wants 64k, in the first TB of RAM.  The current code totally borks on
> this.
> 
> Simple patch against 2.6.9:

As Andrew pointed out, you didn't even compile test this patch, not nice.

thanks,

greg k-h
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