Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946673AbWKJOCX (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:02:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946670AbWKJOCX (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:02:23 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:35712 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946673AbWKJOCW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:02:22 -0500 Message-ID: <45548662.1000409@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:02:10 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Jeff Chua , Matthew Wilcox , Aaron Durbin , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , gregkh@suse.de, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3) References: <200611100757.00203.ak@suse.de> <1163153778.7900.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1163153778.7900.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 26 Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Gwe, 2006-11-10 am 07:56 +0100, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: >> I'm sure some people will be upset again if we don't use it. >> Perhaps there are really users who want to use the PCI-E error handling >> for example. > > And there is now hardware out there which requires accessing PCI-E > configuration spaces. Disabling it for those cases is not a sensible > option t all. Yeah, mmconfig is required for accessing extended PCI configuration space, and for accessing ANY devices on a non-zero PCI segment (read: x86 PCI domains). If you have boot devices on a PCI domain bus, you aren't booting at all, unless you're running -mm... Jeff - 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/