Date: 19 Jan 2005 00:31:03 +0100
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:31:03 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, paulus@samba.org,
       benh@kernel.crashing.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:14:21AM -0600, Brian King wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >As Brian said the device he was working with would just not answer,
> >leading to a bus abort.  This would get ffffffff on a PC.
> >You could simulate this if you want, although I think a EBUSY or EIO
> >is better.
> 
> Alan - are you satisfied with the most recent patch, or would you prefer 
> the patch not returning failure return codes and just bit bucketing 
> writes and returning all ff's on reads? Either way works for me.

Hmm, I think i haven't seen a recent patch. But as long as it doesn't
block in pci_config_* and is light weight there it's fine for me.

-Andi
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