Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:15:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:15:16 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:29848 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:15:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:15:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011128.131503.22504634.davem@redhat.com> To: groudier@free.fr Cc: matthias@winterdrache.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sym53c875: reading /proc causes SCSI parity error From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011128184622.N2255-100000@gerard> In-Reply-To: <3C053AF2.10037.4CCE47@localhost> <20011128184622.N2255-100000@gerard> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: G?rard Roudier Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:14:52 +0100 (CET) This is a known issue that had been discussed in time, but no fix had been considered worth to be applied by PCI et co maintainers. Why not just put some bitmap pointer into the pci device struct. If it is non-NULL, it specifies PCI config space areas which have side-effects. - 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/