Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932240AbWHBXYK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:24:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932333AbWHBXYK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:24:10 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:38331 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932240AbWHBXYJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:24:09 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Daniel Ritz Subject: Re: pccards are not detected Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:23:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Pavel Roskin , Marcus Better , linux-pcmcia , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel" References: <200608021931.46058.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> <1154551499.7714.13.camel@dv> <200608030102.48045.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> In-Reply-To: <200608030102.48045.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608030123.54692.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 23 > ok, in other words: > 2.6.16: end result: direct access; if direct doesn't work: pcibios > 2.6.17: end result: pci bios (only direct if pcibios fails! ) > 2.6.17+patch: end result: direct access; if direct doesn't work: pcibios > => net result is the same, but less code is executed, order is clear always. Makes sense. PCI BIOS access is totally obsolete and should only be used when everything else fails. > btw. it's commit 92c05fc1a32e5ccef5e0e8201f32dcdab041524c > ([PATCH] PCI: Give PCI config access initialization a defined ordering) > that broke things on those laptops. cc'ing Andi... It could have broken before where the order was essentially random. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/